Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy

by Laura Harrison

Book Overview

Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman - through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors - carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between parents and surrogates, this book is interested in how reproductive technologies intersect with race, particularly when brown bodies produce white...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479894869
• ISBN13: 9781479894864
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"