Baby Markets (eBook, ePUB)

Money and the New Politics of Creating Families
Redaktion: Goodwin, Michele Bratcher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Creating families can no longer be described by heterosexual reproduction in the intimacy of a couple's home and the privacy of their bedroom. To the contrary, babies can be brought into families through complex matrixes involving lawyers, coordinators, surrogates, 'brokers', donors, sellers, endocrinologists, and without any traditional forms of intimacy. In direct response to the need and desire to parent, men, women, and couples - gay and straight - have turned to viable, alternative means: baby markets. This book examines the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes. From homosexual couples skirting Mother Nature by going to the assisted reproductive realm and buying the sperm or ova that will complete the reproductive process, to Americans travelling abroad to acquire children in China, Korea, or Ethiopia, market dynamics influence how babies and toddlers come into Western families. Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts explore how financial interests, aesthetic preferences, pop culture, children's needs, race, class, sex, religion, and social customs influences the law and economics of baby markets.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139793193
• Artikelnr.: 52850896

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. What Makes a Market?: Efficiency, Accountability, and Reliability
in Getting the Babies We Want: 1. Baby markets Michele Goodwin; 2. The
upside of baby markets Martha Ertman; 3. Price and pretense in the baby
market Kimberly Krawiec; 4. Bringing feminist fundamentalism to the US baby
markets Mary Anne Case; 5. Producing kinship through the marketplaces of
transnational adoption Sara Dorow; Part II. Space and Place: Reproducing
and Reframing Social Norms of Race, Class, Gender and Otherness: 6.
Adoption laws and practices: serving whose interests? Ruth Arlene-Howe; 7.
International adoption: the human rights issues Elizabeth Bartholet; 8.
Heterosexuality as a prenatal social problem: why parents and courts have a
taste for heterosexuality Jose Gabilondo; 9. Transracial adoption of black
children: an economic analysis Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Daniel Pollack;
Part III. Spectrums and Discourses: Rights, Regulations, and Choice: 10.
Reproducing dreams Naomi Cahn; 11. Why do parents have rights? The problem
of kinship in liberal thought Maggie Gallagher; 12. Free markets, free
choice? A market approach to reproductive rights Debora Spar; 13. Commerce
and regulation in the assisted reproduction industry John Robertson; 14.
Ethics within markets or a market for ethics: can disclosure of sperm donor
identity be effectively mandated? June Carbone; Part IV. The Ethics of Baby
and Embryo Markets: 15. Egg donation for research and reproduction: the
compensation conundrum Nanette Elster; 16. Eggs, nests, and stem cells Lisa
Ikemota; 17. Where stem cell research meets abortion politics: limits on
buying and selling human oocytes Michelle Oberman; Part V. Tenuous Grounds
and Baby Taboos: 18. Risky exchanges Viviana Zelizer; 19. Giving in to baby
markets Sonia Suter.