Sociological debates on gestational surrogacy : between legitimation and international abolition / Daniela Bandelli.
Bandelli, Daniela, author.
2021
HQ759.5 .B36 2021
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Title Sociological debates on gestational surrogacy : between legitimation and international abolition / Daniela Bandelli.
Author Bandelli, Daniela, author.
ISBN 9783030803025 (electronic bk.)
3030803023 (electronic bk.)
9783030803018
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80302-5
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxii, 158 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-80302-5 doi
Call Number HQ759.5 .B36 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.874/3
Summary This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich account of transnational mobilizations for the abolition and regulation of surrogacy, with focus on United States, Italy and Mexico. The author critically assesses the core narratives of supporters and opponents of surrogacy, in order to understand this reproductive practice in light of some of the essential elements of contemporary societies, such as the "child at any cost" culture, individualism, technology and female emancipation. This book appeals to scholars, policy makers and all those who want to understand the controversial debate on this unprecedented method of family formation and life production.
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Print version: 9783030803032
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An introduction to the problems of surrogacy and the demands from civil society
The study's origins and methodology
Features of a booming reproductive practice. The medical process, the market, the antecedents and the risks
Sociological perspectives across individual experiences, social structures and representations
Surrogacy in the United States: the horse is out of the barn
The Mexican case: the differences between autonomy and radical feminism
The Italian case: a strong opposition in the name of women's sexual identity and motherhood
Abolitionist and Regulatory Arguments into perspectives
Conclusions.

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