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About Elly Teman
Who is Elly Teman?
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The Book
Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to
probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate
motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book,
Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully
negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological
fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with
cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global context,
Teman traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any
maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a
complicated transition to motherhood. Teman's groundbreaking
analysis reveals that as surrogates psychologically and
emotionally disengage from the fetus they carry, they develop a
profound and lasting bond with the intended mother.
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Research
Publications on Surrogacy and other topics.
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Media and Outreach
News coverage about my publications.