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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0814751555 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0814751547 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99006661  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Motherhood--United States.<br/>Surrogate motherhood--United States.<br/>Open adoption--United States.<br/>Foster parents--United States.<br/>Parents of children with disabilities--United States.<br/>Fetal death--United States.<br/>Infants--Death.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ759.T74 1999  / 102617 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.874/3/0973