| Description |
xx, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Surrogate selves and embodied others -- The body map -- Operationalizing the body map -- Intended mothers and maternal intentions -- The shifting body -- Rites of classification -- The surrogate's gift -- The surrogate's mission -- The hero's quest. |
| Summary |
This is an ethnography which probes the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavour. |
| Subject |
Surrogate mothers -- Israel.
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Surrogate mothers. |
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Israel. |
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Mothers -- Israel.
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Mothers. |
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Pregnancy -- Israel.
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Pregnancy. |
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Judaism.
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Judaism. |
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Mothers. |
| ISBN |
9780520259645 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780520259638 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520259637 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520259645 paperback alkaline paper |
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