Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
by Elly Teman
An ethnographic exploration of surrogacy that investigates how women experience pregnancy, identity, and kinship within assisted reproduction.
About This Book
This book examines the social and cultural dimensions of gestational surrogacy through ethnographic research.
It explores how surrogate mothers and intended parents experience pregnancy, identity, and kinship.
The study draws on fieldwork conducted in Israel to analyze the embodied realities of surrogacy arrangements.
Topics include bodily boundaries, maternal identity formation, and the medicalization of reproduction.
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