Labor of love : gestational surrogacy and the work of making babies /

Drawn from extensive interviews with paid gestational surrogates, women employed to carry children who are not genetically their own, Labor of Love reveals the challenges they face as they deal with complicated medical procedures, delicate work-family balances, and tricky social dynamics. The book d...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Jacobson, Heather (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Collection:Families in focus.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1b67wv5
Table des matières:
  • Conceptions
  • Making reproduction profitable: the contemporary surrogacy market
  • Laboring to conceive: surrogacy as work
  • Managing relations: surrogates and their IPs
  • Working from home: surrogates and their families
  • Obscured labor.