Dear colleagues,
I am happy
to share with you the publication of Birthing a Mother, my book on the
embodiment and experience of gestational
surrogacy. I look forward to hearing your
feedback. Apologies for any cross posting.
Birthing
a Mother
The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
Elly Teman
University of California Press
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11401.php
Birthing
a Mother is the first
ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate
motherhood. Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers
carefully
negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on
anthropological
fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural
perspectives of surrogacy in the global context, Teman traces the
processes
by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as
intended mothers accomplish a complicated transition to motherhood.
"Teman
deftly portrays surrogacy as a joint project through
which one woman assists another, through sacrifice and instruction, to
become
also a mother."—Heather Paxson, author of Making Modern Mothers:
Ethics and Family Planning in Urban Greece
“Absolutely
wonderful – Birthing a Mother flows like a novel. And in
addition to its outstanding scholarship, it serves as a
kind of ‘how to’ guide for potential
surrogates and intended parents. This is fieldwork at its best.” —Robbie
Davis-Floyd, editor of Birth Models that Work and
author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage
"This spectacular ethnography is a
must-read for anthropologists, sociologists, women's studies scholars,
and
their students. Birthing a Mother brilliantly brings us into a
world
where surrogates and intended mothers develop a
relationship
but a surrogate is disassociated from the fetus growing in her womb."
Diane L. Wolf, author of Beyond Anne Frank
Sample
chapter
Birthing
a Mother--UC
Press publisher’s catalog
cloth
978-0-520-25963-8 $55.00
paper 978-0-520-25964-5 $21.95
On
sale now on Amazon.com for $14.81
Birthing a Mother would be a great text for courses in sociology,
anthropology and gender studies that are concerned with medicalization,
reproductive technologies, kinship and family, body and embodiment, nationalism and religion, and
technology and society.
If you are interested in an evaluation or desk copy of Birthing a
Mother, please see the University of California Press Books for
Course Use policy.
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Elly Teman, PhD
Postdoctoral
Research Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
Penn Center for the
Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies (Penn CIGHT)
Division
of Medical Genetics
1112 Penn Tower
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Book: Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
Publisher website: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11401.php
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Birthing-Mother-Surrogate-Body-Pregnant/dp/0520259645/