Overview
- Provides insights on opposing views, alliances and divisions within feminism on gestational surrogacy.
- Asks thought-provoking questions on the limits of individual freedom in procreation.
- Based on first-hand data collected in the USA, Italy and Mexico.
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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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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Front Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Daniela Bandelli, PhD, is Lecturer of Sociology at LUMSA University in Rome (Italy). She has a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Australia. As a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Fellow and visiting scholar at the University of Texas, she is conducting the project “Women's Movements and Gestational Surrogacy” (WoMoGeS), with fieldwork in Mexico, United States and Italy and this book is an outcome of the research project. Her research interests span across assisted reproduction, domestic violence, and feminism. She is the author of Femicide, Gender, and Violence (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy
Book Subtitle: Between Legitimation and International Abolition
Authors: Daniela Bandelli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80302-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80301-8Published: 01 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80304-9Published: 01 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80302-5Published: 31 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 158
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy, Labor Economics