Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index. |
Contents |
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: unfamiliar families? -- The new problem of surrogate motherhood: legislative responses -- "Choice" and the "best interests of children": claiming the problem of surrogate motherhood -- "Moral conundrums and menacing ambiguities": framing the problem of surrogate motherhood -- Competing frames of surrogacy: comparing newspapers' coverage of "horror stories" -- Unity, divisions, and strange bedfellows: divergent legislative responses to surrogate motherhood -- A brave new world? Reproductive politics from the past to the present -- Appendix A: A note on methods and data -- Appendix B: A multistate comparison of the impact of sponsor's gender and abortion position on the success of surrogacy bills -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Summary |
Susan Markens takes on one of the hottest issues on the fertility front - surrogate motherhood - in a book that illuminates the culture wars that have erupted over new reproductive technologies in the United States. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Surrogate motherhood.
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Surrogate motherhood. |
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Surrogate mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Surrogate mothers -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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United States. |
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Surrogate mothers. |
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Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Surrogate motherhood -- Social aspects. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Markens, Susan, 1967- Surrogate motherhood and the politics of reproduction. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 0520252039 9780520252035 (DLC) 2006029089 (OCoLC)71288729 |
ISBN |
9780520940970 (electronic book) |
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0520940970 (electronic book) |
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0520252039 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520252035 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520252047 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520252042 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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