
Baby Markets
Money and the New Politics of Creating Families
By: Michele Bratcher Goodwin (Editor)
Paperback | 2 July 2010
At a Glance
336 Pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 1.9
Paperback
$55.95
or 4 interest-free payments of $13.99 with
orAims to ship in 7 to 10 business days
On the contrary, babies can be brought into families through complex matrixes involving lawyers, coordinators, surrogates, "brokers," donors, sellers, and endocrinologists, and without any traditional forms of intimacy. Mostly, these baby acquisitions are legal, but in some cases black markets are involved.
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. The marketplace for creating families spans transnational borders and encompasses international adoptions with exorbitant fees attached to the purchasing of ova and sperm and the leasing of wombs. For as much as these processes are in public view, rarely do we consider them for what they are: 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 traveling abroad to acquire children in China, Korea, or Ethiopia, market dynamics influence how babies and toddlers come into Western families.
Equally, some contributors push back at the notion that markets appropriately describe contemporary adoptions and assisted reproduction. Michele Bratcher 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 influence who benefits from and who is hurt by the law and economics of baby markets.
About the Author
Michele Bratcher Goodwin, B.A., J.D., LL.M., is the Everett Fraser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, where she holds joint appointments in the Medical School and the School of Public Health. In 2008, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. She has been a visiting scholar at Berkeley School of Law in the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She was a postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, conducting research on the antebellum politics of sex and law. Her op-ed commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Sun Times and Forbes Magazine.
Industry Reviews
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xix |
What Makes a Market? Efficiency, Accountability, and Reliability or Getting the Babies We Want | p. 1 |
Baby Markets | p. 2 |
The Upside of Baby Markets | p. 23 |
Price and Pretense in the Baby Market | p. 41 |
Bringing Feminist Fundamentalism to U.S. Baby Markets | p. 56 |
Producing Kinship through the Marketplaces of Transnational Adoption | p. 69 |
Space and Place: Reproducing and Reframing Social Norms of Race, Class, Gender, and Otherness | p. 85 |
Adoption Laws and Practices: Serving Whose Interests? | p. 86 |
International Adoption: The Human Rights Issues | p. 94 |
Heterosexuality as a Prenatal Social Problem: Why Parents and Courts Have a Taste for Heterosexuality | p. 118 |
Transracial Adoption of Black Children: An Economic Analysis | p. 133 |
Spectrums and Discourses: Rights, Regulations, and Choice | p. 146 |
Reproducing Dreams | p. 147 |
Why Do Parents-Have Rights?: The Problem of Kinship in Liberal Thought | p. 164 |
Free Markets, Free Choice?: A Market Approach to Reproductive Rights | p. 177 |
Commerce and Regulation in the Assisted Reproduction Industry | p. 191 |
Ethics within Markets or a Market for Ethics?: Can Disclosure of Sperm Donor Identity Be Effectively Mandated? | p. 208 |
The Ethics of Baby and Embryo Markets | p. 225 |
Egg Donation for Research and Reproduction: The Compensation Conundrum | p. 226 |
Eggs, Nests, and Stem Cells | p. 237 |
Where Stem Cell Research Meets Abortion Politics: Limits on Buying and Selling Human Oocytes | p. 251 |
Tenuous Grounds and Baby Taboos | p. 266 |
Risky Exchanges | p. 267 |
Giving In to Baby Markets | p. 278 |
Concluding Thoughts | p. 295 |
Author Bios | p. 297 |
Index | p. 301 |
ISBN: 9780521735100
ISBN-10: 0521735106
Published: 2nd July 2010
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.3 x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.51
Shipping
Standard Shipping | Express Shipping | |
---|---|---|
Metro postcodes: | $9.99 | $14.95 |
Regional postcodes: | $9.99 | $14.95 |
Rural postcodes: | $9.99 | $14.95 |
How to return your order
At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.
Additional postage charges may be applicable.
Defective items
If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.
For more info please visit our Help Centre.
You Can Find This Book In
This product is categorised by
- Non-FictionLawLaws of Specific Jurisdictions
- Non-FictionSociety & CultureEthical Issues & DebatesEthical Issues of Abortion & Birth Control
- Non-FictionSocial Services & Welfare
- Non-FictionSociology & AnthropologySociologySociology & Family & Relationships
- Non-FictionFamily & HealthRelationships & Families: Advice & IssuesAdoption & Fostering: Advice & Issues
- Non-FictionMedicinePre-Clinical Medicine & Basic SciencesHuman Reproduction, Growth & DevelopmentReproductive Medicine
- Non-FictionSociety & CultureSocial Issues & Processes