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Title:

Transformative motherhood : on giving and getting in a consumer culture / edited by Linda L. Layne.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

xix, 222 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Motherhood--United States.
Surrogate motherhood--United States.
Open adoption--United States.
Foster parents--United States.
Parents of handicapped children--United States.
Fetal death--United States.
Infants--United States--Death.
Motherhood--United States.
Fetal death--United States.
Open adoption--United States.
Foster parents--United States.
Infants--United States--Death.
Surrogate motherhood--United States.
Parents of handicapped children--United States.

Other Authors:

Layne, Linda L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Freely given : open adoption and the rhetoric of the gift / Judith S. Modell -- The gift of life : surrogate motherhood, gamete donation, and constructions of altruism / Heléna Ragoné -- Gifts and burdens : the social and familial context of foster mothering / Danielle F. Wozniak -- Does God give special kids to special parents? personhood and the child with disabilities as gift and as giver / Gail Landsman -- "True gifts from God" : motherhood, sacrifice, and enrichment in the case of pregnancy loss / Linda L. Layne.

ISBN:

9780814751541 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814751547 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814751558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814751555 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41641183

LCCN:

99006661

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)