Transformative motherhood
Subtitle: on giving and getting in a consumer culture
By: edited by Linda L. Layne
Contributors: Layne, Linda L
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Freely given : open adoption and the rhetoric of the gift / Judith S. Modell; title: The gift of life : surrogate motherhood, gamete donation, and constructions of altruism / Heléna Ragoné; title: Gifts and burdens : the social and familial context of foster mothering / Danielle F. Wozniak; title: Does God give special kids to special parents? personhood and the child with disabilities as gift and as giver / Gail Landsman; title: "True gifts from God" : motherhood, sacrifice, and enrichment in the case of pregnancy loss / Linda L. Layne