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"This is a Business Transaction, fundamentally": Surrogate Motherhood in Meera Syal's The House of Hidden Mothers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Meera Syal’s latest novel, The House of Hidden Mothers (2015), depicts the current practice of international surrogacy and raises questions about this form of reproduction which commodifies babies and constructs poor women’s bodies in India and elsewhere
Pérez Fernández, Irene
core  

Maternal Paradox: When Nurturer Meets the Knife, Living Organ Donation From Daughters to Mothers in Türkiye

open access: yesSociology 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

open access: yesJournal 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: A biomedical mechanism in the fight against infertility [PDF]

open access: yesAnali 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

open access: yesHumanities & 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
doaj   +1 more source

Earnings Trajectories Around Parenthood: Male Same‐Sex Couples in Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines earnings trajectories of male same‐sex couples around the time they become parents in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sweden: three forerunners in advancing same‐sex couples' legal rights but with different family policy frameworks.
Weverthon Machado   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reproductive Misconception: Why Cloning Is Not Just Another Assisted Reproductive Technology [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Nowadays, many different efficient solutions are being studied to solve engineering problems. Inside this group of solutions we can find the Soil Steel Composite Bridges (SSCB) as an alternative to traditional bridges.
Rose, Andre P.
core   +3 more sources

The unbearable (financial) burdens of parenting

open access: yes
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Alya Guseva
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesPharos 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From modern workplaces to modern families – re-envisioning the work–family conflict [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Modern Workplaces Consultation 2011 set the foundations for the current revisions to work–family rights in the UK. They are underpinned by a desire to make modern workplaces more flexible and responsive to the needs of working families.
Weldon-Johns, Michelle
core   +2 more sources

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