Brown Bodies, White Babies : The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy /

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Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harrison, Laura, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Surrogate mothers.
Surrogate motherhood > Social aspects.
Surrogate motherhood > Economic aspects.
Race.
Human reproductive technology > Economic aspects.
Surrogate motherhood.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Procreation medicalement assistee > Aspect economique.
Meres porteuses.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: cross-racial gestational surrogacy
  • The path to gestational surrogacy: naturalizing the new normal
  • "Mommy's tummy was broken": surrogacy enters the mainstream
  • From mammies to mommy machines: gender and racialized reproductive labor
  • The woman or the egg? Comparing surrogacy and egg donation databases
  • "I am the baby's real mother": reproductive tourism and the transnational construction of kinship
  • Conclusion: from embryo to "pre-born American."

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