Unraveling Surrogacy in Ontario, Canada : An Ethnographic Inquiry of Surrogacy Contracts, Parentage Laws and Gay Fatherhood

ISBN-13: 9783639162127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 136 str.

Shireen Kashmeri

Opis

Although the Canadian government has attempted tounderstand and regulate reproductive technology sincethe Royal Commission on New Reproductive and GeneticTechnologies that ran from 1989 to 1993, it onlypassed federal legislation known as the AssistedHuman Reproduction Act in 2004. Since theratification of this Act, the practice of third partyreproduction and more specifically surrogacy remainsa grey zone. Surrogacy involves a simple premise: awoman gives birth to a baby that she will not parent.This book is an ethnographic inquiry of surrogacy andhow it is lived in the Province of Ontario, Canada. Iexamine and critique the Assisted Human ReproductionAct (2004), in particular its problematic stance onthe commercialization and commodification of reproductive capacities. I also present narrativesby surrogates, gay fathers and lawyers on theirexperience with surrogacy contracting, parentage lawsand gay fatherhood. This book is a small-scale andqualitative ethnographic study spotlighting thenarratives of six core participants alongside a rangeof data sources that include commission witnesstestimony, federal reports and legal cases of parentage.

O autorze

Shireen Kashmeri has an MA in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from
Concordia University. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the
University of Toronto, Toronto. She lives and works in Toronto,
Ontario.