The Online World of Surrogacy

Zsuzsa Berend (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781789200645 (ISBN)

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A methodologically innovative ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.com, the largest surrogacy support website in the United States.

Examines definitions of parenthood, the symbolic role of money, reproductive loss, altruism, and the moral valuation of relationships.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2018
Reihe/Serie	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781789200645 / 9781789200645
Zustand	Neuware