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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Stolen MotherhoodSurrogacy and Made-to-Order Children |
Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the “process” is vitiated from the get go, i.e., … | Maria De Koninck | 194 | 2020 | View |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
The introduction looks at legality in Quebec and Canada and establishes some vocabulary definitions. | Maria De Koninck | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
From ![]() Surrogacy’s Emergence, Development, and International ExpansionFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
The author begins by examining the social, cultural, and economic factors that underpin surrogacy, claiming that it is essential to examine it in today’s context while identifying the … | Maria De Koninck | 32 | 2020 | $3.20 Add |
From ![]() Women’s IssuesFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
This chapter looks at the evolution of the concept/experience of motherhood, and the author asserts that society is increasingly viewing pregnancy and childbirth from a utilitarian perspective, … | Maria De Koninck | 33 | 2020 | $3.30 Add |
From ![]() The Child at the Heart of SurrogacyFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
This chapter focuses on the children at the "heart" of surrogacy, highlighting these children’s wellbeing, future, and all other considerations, which the author argues are … | Maria De Koninck | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
From ![]() When the Patriarchy Meets the MatriarchyFrom: Power Shift |
Politics and Society — the power and the fury of changing world opinions Please Note: A collection can contain up to 30% of the chapters from this title | Sally Armstrong | 56 | 2019 | $6.72 Add |
From ![]() Wanting a Child versus Human DignityFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
The author critiques the for-profit contract based model of surrogacy and looks at the implications of this model. She touches on concepts of medical ethics, individualism, social infertility, … | Maria De Koninck | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() The Pieces of the PuzzleFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
This chapter examines three dimensions of surrogacy more closely: "the health of mother and child, the use of anthropological knowledge in the debate surrounding it, and the illusion that … | Maria De Koninck | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() ConclusionFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
The conclusion touches on the nature of the demand for surrogacy and argues that surrogacy should be banned internationally. | Maria De Koninck | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Mussolini the FeministDid the Duce improve the status of women in Italy? |
This chapter tackles the premise that the Fascist regime was more open to women’s rights than the regimes that preceded it and have followed it. The author examines how this Facist regime … | Francesco Filippi | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() The Dictionary of Homophobia: LPublisher's note, Preface to the Original Edition, Editor's Preface To the English-Language Edition, Introduction, The Anti-Anthology, Table of Entries, Contributors |
Latin America (Luiz Mott); Law. See European Law; Leduc, Violette (Anne-Claire Rebreyend); Lesbophobia (Raymonde Gérard); Literature (Louis-Georges Tin); Lobby (Caroline Fourest) | Louis-Georges Tin | 38 | 2008 | $1.14 Add |
From ![]() The Dictionary of Homophobia: N, OPublisher's note, Preface to the Original Edition, Editor's Preface To the English-Language Edition, Introduction, The Anti-Anthology, Table of Entries, Contributors |
Nature. See Against Nature; North America (Pierre-Olivier de Busscher); Oceania (David Plummer); Orthodoxy (Christian) (Nicolas Plagne); Otherness (Pierre Zaoui); Outing (Christophe Broqua) | Louis-Georges Tin | 39 | 2008 | $1.17 Add |