Intimate Strangers: Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth

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Titel: Intimate Strangers : Commercial Surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine and the Making of Truth

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preliminary Notes
Introduction
Part I
1. The Biopolitics of Motherhood
2. Secret Conceptions
Part II
3. Choreographing Surrogacy
4. Doing It Business-Style
5. Technologies of Alignment
Part III
6. Laboring with Happiness
7. Ambivalences of Freedom
Conclusion
Afterword: Surrogacy in Times of War
Appendix: Research Participants
Notes
References
Index

Beteiligte: Siegl, Veronika [Verfasser:in]

Körperschaft: Swiss National Science Foundation

Erschienen: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781501769931

ISBN: 9781501769931

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Schlagwörter: Surrogate motherhood Economic aspects Russia ; Surrogate motherhood Economic aspects Ukraine ; Surrogate motherhood Social aspects Russia ; Surrogate motherhood Social aspects Ukraine ; Surrogate motherhood Russia ; Surrogate motherhood Ukraine ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical ; surrogacy in Russia, surrogacy in Ukraine, surrogate motherhood, infertility in Russia, fragile truths surrogacy, ethical labor surrogacy, commercial surrogacy

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Zooming in on commercial surrogacy in Russia and Ukraine, Intimate Strangers addresses market expansion into the intimate spheres of life that play out on women's bodies as mothers and workers. Veronika Siegl follows the inner workings of a surrogacy market marked by secrecy, distrust, and anonymous business relationships. She explores intended mothers' anxious struggles for a child in light of stigmatized infertility and the aggressive biopolitics of motherhood; the uncertain but pragmatic pathways in and out of fertility clinics as surrogates navigate harsh economic realities and resist being objectified or morally judged; and the powerful role of agents and doctors who have found a profitable niche in nurturing and facilitating other people's existential hopes. Intimate Strangers discusses these issues against the backdrop of ultra-conservatism and moral governance in Russia, the rising international popularity of the Ukrainian surrogacy market, and the pervasiveness of neo-liberal ideologies and individualized notions of reproductive freedom

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