The Online World of Surrogacy

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-064-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.com, the largest surrogacy support website in the United States. Surrogates’ views emerge from the stories, debates, and discussions that unfold online. The Online World of Surrogacy documents these collective meaning-making practices and explores their practical, emotional, and moral implications. In doing so, the book works through themes of interest across the social sciences, including definitions of parenthood, the symbolic role of money, reproductive loss, altruism, and the moral valuation of relationships.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berend, Zsuzsa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Reproduktionsmedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Virtual Meeting Ground for Real People

Chapter 2. Journey

Chapter 3. Contract

Chapter 4. Money

Chapter 5. Gift

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Berend, Zsuzsa
Zsuzsa Berend teaches sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles and is the academic administrator of the sociology departmental Honors program. For over a decade, she has been doing ethnographic research on an online surrogacy support forum and published on surrogacy-related topics in Medical Anthropology, Sociological Forum, and American Anthropologist.