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Surrogate motherhood and the politics of reproduction
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- Creator
- Susan Markens
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0520252039, 0520940970, 6611385649, 9781281385642, 9780520252042, 143565367X, 1281385646, 9780520940970, 9786611385644, 9780520252035, 0520252047
- OCLC
- ocn235354826, ocm71288729, ocn476162396
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index.
- 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