ANTH 2170 Lecture Notes - Human Reproduction, Surrogacy, Biomedicine
19 Mar 2013
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The anthropology of reproduction explores the social, cultural, and political complexities involved in human reproduction in contemporary and historical worlds. Women"s bodies have been scientifically constructed as essentially faulty; their reproductive bodies as potentially dangerous to babies; childbirth as so fraught with danger as to be unthinkable macdonald 2007:95. To go beyond the critiques of reproductive technologies, and surrogacy in particular, teman set out to understand women"s real experiences. Surrogates used body maps and did emotional work to distance themselves from the fetus, to create bonding opportunities for the intended mother, Surrogates normalized their role by claiming medical disruptions to their true selves. Aimed to recover their lives and selves quickly after delivery. Pays attention to the role of the location, unique characteristics of jewish israel. Kinship (relatedness who is in our family) refers to the social relationships that are typically derived from the universal human experiences of bearing and rearing children.
