Labor of Love: Gestational Surrogacy and the Work of Making Babies

by Heather Jacobson

Book Overview

While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying children that are not genetically their own. While some women volunteer to act as gestational surrogates for friends or family members, others get paid for performing this service. The first ethnographic study of gestational surrogacy in the United States, Labor of Love examines the conflicted attitudes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813569508
• ISBN13: 9780813569505
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 5.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher