AN220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Surrogacy, Social Fact
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Kinship systems may change in response to internal and external forces. Kath weston: 20 years after schneider (1991, wrote book called family we choose , worked in san francisco at time of aids crisis, made de facto families went against the traditional family. Surrogacy: happens during the conception process, class, race, feminism, surrogate pregnancy exposes motherhood not as a fact of nature, but as a social fact, there is also usually an assumption of heterosexual marriage or coupling, 1. Threatens the natural process of birth shared process (motherhood as well: shared motherhood, 2. Belonging of the child tradition dictates that the mother raises the child that she births: 3.
