Baby Markets

ISBN-13: 9780521513739 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 338 str.

Edited By Michele Br

Opis

From Michael Jackson and Madonna to Nadya Suleman and Jon and Kate Gosselin, creating families can no longer be described by heterosexual reproduction in the intimacy of a couple s home and the privacy of their bedroom. 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."

Recenzje

'In Baby Markets, Professor Goodwin and her colleagues provide an unflinching account of the largely unregulated world of reproduction and adoption. They begin by exposing the vast extent of world markets for these services, expertly assessing their troubling racial and national implications. More surprisingly, several chapters suggest the possibilities these same markets hold for poverty-relief, equality, and justice. This varied collection is for anyone interested in the complicated and controversial world of [twenty-first-century] family creation.' Jill R. Horwitz, Louis and Myrtle Moskowitz Research Professor of Business and Law, University of Michigan Law School

Spis treści

Part I. What Makes a Market?: Efficiency, Accountability, and Reliability in Getting the Babies We Want: 1. Baby markets Michele Goodwin; 2. The upside of baby markets Martha Ertman; 3. Price and pretense in the baby market Kimberly Krawiec; 4. Bringing feminist fundamentalism to the US baby markets Mary Anne Case; 5. Producing kinship through the marketplaces of transnational adoption Sara Dorow; Part II. Space and Place: Reproducing and Reframing Social Norms of Race, Class, Gender and Otherness: 6. Adoption laws and practices: serving whose interests? Ruth Arlene-Howe; 7. International adoption: the human rights issues Elizabeth Bartholet; 8. Heterosexuality as a prenatal social problem: why parents and courts have a taste for heterosexuality Jose Gabilondo; 9. Transracial adoption of black children: an economic analysis Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Daniel Pollack; Part III. Spectrums and Discourses: Rights, Regulations, and Choice: 10. Reproducing dreams Naomi Cahn; 11. Why do parents have rights? The problem of kinship in liberal thought Maggie Gallagher; 12. Free markets, free choice? A market approach to reproductive rights Debora Spar; 13. Commerce and regulation in the assisted reproduction industry John Robertson; 14. Ethics within markets or a market for ethics: can disclosure of sperm donor identity be effectively mandated? June Carbone; Part IV. The Ethics of Baby and Embryo Markets: 15. Egg donation for research and reproduction: the compensation conundrum Nanette Elster; 16. Eggs, nests, and stem cells Lisa Ikemota; 17. Where stem cell research meets abortion politics: limits on buying and selling human oocytes Michelle Oberman; Part V. Tenuous Grounds and Baby Taboos: 18. Risky exchanges Viviana Zelizer; 19. Giving in to baby markets Sonia Suter.