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Transformative motherhood : on giving and getting in a consumer culture / edited by Linda L. Layne. - New York : New York University Press, c1999. - xix, 222 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

LCCN: 99006661

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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--Death.--United States

LC Class. No.: HQ759.T74 1999 / 102617

Dewey Class. No.: 306.874/3/0973