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Transformative motherhood : on giving and getting in a consumer culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Layne, Linda L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [1999]
Subjects:
Motherhood > United States.
Surrogate motherhood > United States.
Open adoption > United States.
Foster parents > United States.
Parents of children with disabilities > United States.
Fetal death > United States.
Infants > United States > Death.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Freely given : open adoption and the rhetoric of the gift / Judith S. Modell
  • The gift of life : surrogate motherhood, gamete donation, and constructions of altruism / Heléna Ragoné
  • Gifts and burdens : the social and familial context of foster mothering / Danielle F. Wozniak
  • Does God give special kids to special parents? personhood and the child with disabilities as gift and as giver / Gail Landsman
  • "True gifts from God" : motherhood, sacrifice, and enrichment in the case of pregnancy loss / Linda L. La