Surrogate motherhood and the politics of reproduction / Susan Markens.

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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:xiii, 272 p. :; ill.
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Table of 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.