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Regretting mother‐ and fatherhood in Switzerland: Equal parenthood regret but for different reasons

Family Relations, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This article investigates the prevalence of and factors associated with parenthood regret in Switzerland. Background There is increasing evidence that parenthood regrets occur both in mothers and fathers, but little is known about their causes and how they relate to gendered norms and conditions of parenthood.
Larissa Fritsch, Sandra Gilgen
wiley   +1 more source

A Woman’s Worth [PDF]

, 2010
This Article examines three traditionally “taboo trades”: (1) the sale of sex, (2) compensated egg donation, and (3) commercial surrogacy. The Article purposely invokes examples in which the compensated provision of goods or services (primarily or ...
Krawiec, Kimberly D.
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Fertility Governance Through Cascaded Accountability: Building Inclusive Safety Nets for Vulnerable Workers

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how workplace fertility governance operates as a system of control, consent, and inequality shaped by organizational, cultural, and institutional forces. Drawing on feminist theory, we develop a multilevel framework of cascading accountability that integrates symbolic violence, biopolitics, chrononormativity, and ...
Meltem Yavuz Serçekman, Mustafa F. Özbilgin   +1 more
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Surrogacy: A biomedical mechanism in the fight against infertility [PDF]

Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu, 2023
This paper reviews the issue of surrogacy. The author analyzes surrogacy and continues by conducting a comparative overview of two legal systems with different approaches to surrogacy.
Barać Ivana
doaj  

Protection of rights and legal remedies for surrogate mothers in China

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Surrogacy has grown significantly as an underground industry in China over the last two decades. Accordingly, an increasing number of surrogate mothers are being bound by surrogacy contracts.
Yue Zhao
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Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Biologies: Gender and the Promises of Biotechnology [PDF]

, 2015
Three decades of work in the feminist studies of science and technology have shaped our evolving understandings of the relationships between sex, gender, and biotechnology.
Subramaniam, Banu
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Maternal Paradox: When Nurturer Meets the Knife, Living Organ Donation From Daughters to Mothers in Türkiye

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article uses the case of living organ donation from daughters to mothers in Türkiye to examine how maternal subjectivities are constructed, enacted, and transformed within specific cultural contexts. In Türkiye, motherhood is both culturally idealized and politically reinforced as the moral core of womanhood.
Sezen Demirhan, İlknur Gürses Köse
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive Curation: Assisted Reproductive Technologies ( ARTs ) and Lesbian Motherhood‐Making

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This paper introduces reproductive curation, the deliberate coordination of reproductive arrangements, as a theoretical framework for examining how legal, institutional, and interpersonal factors interact with technology in shaping reproductive decision‐making, based on interviews with 32 lesbian mothers and mothers‐to‐be in China ...
Xiaomin Cai, Susanne Y. P. Choi
wiley   +1 more source

Surrogacy in Islamic Jurisprudence: A Comprehensive Study of Maqasid al-Shariah and Ethical Viability According to Contemporary Mufassir [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
From an Islamic Jurisprudence point of view, this research tries to examine surrogacy mostly in connection to Maqasid al-Shariah and current mufassir ideas.
Angga Tinova Yudha, Amsal Qori Dalimunthe, An Nisa Dian Rahma   +2 more
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The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Alya Guseva
wiley   +1 more source