A CRITICAL APPROACH TO SURROGACY
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- Author: DAMIEN W. RIGGS
- ISBN: 9781138123656
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This comprehensive text makes an
important contribution to the study of surrogacy, developing a novel
theoretical framework through which to understand the broader social contexts
as well as individual decisions at play within surrogacy arrangements. Drawing
on empirical research conducted by the authors and supplemented by secondary
analyses of media, legislative and public accounts of surrogacy, the book
engages with the key stakeholders involved in the practice of surrogacy.
Specifically, it canvases the standpoints of women who act as surrogates,
intending parents who commission surrogacy arrangements, children born through
surrogacy, clinics that facilitate the arrangements, and politicians and
journalists who engage with the topic. Through a focus on capitalism as a means
of orientating ourselves to the topic of surrogacy, the book highlights the
vulnerabilities that potentially arise in the context of surrogacy, as well as
the claims to agency invoked by some parties in order to mitigate vulnerability.
In so doing, the book demonstrates that the psychology of surrogacy must be
broadly understood as an orientation to particular ways of thinking about
children, reproduction and economies of labour.