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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Intersections ; 9
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Cross- Racial Gestational Surrogacy
  • 1. The Path to Gestational Surrogacy: Naturalizing the New Normal
  • 2. “Mommy’s Tummy Was Broken”: Surrogacy Enters the Mainstream
  • 3. From Mammies to Mommy Machines: Gender and Racialized Reproductive Labor
  • 4. The Woman or the Egg? Comparing Surrogacy and Egg Donation Database
  • 5. “I Am the Baby’s Real Mother”: Reproductive Tourism and the Transnational Construction of Kinship
  • Conclusion: From Embryo to “Pre- Born American”
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author