Synopsis
Offering a study of surrogate motherhood, this book addresses questions about what constitutes motherhood, fatherhood, family, reproduction and kinship; about what the surrogates, commissioning couples and professionals think and feel about surrogacy; and about how and when the children are told of their birth origins. The book includes actual surrogate and couple-evaluation forms completed by clinical psychologists in the USA, confidential surrogate-motherhood sheets, and the legal contract used by one of the programmes that exist in America.
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About the Author
Helena Ragoné teaches anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the coeditor of Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life and Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation. She is currently writing Distant Kin, on gestational surrogacy and ovum donation.
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