Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Changing Conceptions of Motherhood?  

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Hammons, Stacy A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Affilia vol. 23 no. 3 (Aug. 2008), page 270-280.
Topik: assisted reproductive technologies; family; motherhood
Fulltext: 270.pdf (91.65KB)

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American society has typically associated motherhood with biology. Assisted reproductive technologies (ART’s) challenge this view by fragmenting motherhood into the social, the genetic, and the gestational. To ascertain the extent to which such a challenge has actually succeeded in changing societal understandings of motherhood, this study explored court cases involving four types of ART’s. The findings suggest that although these ART’s have the potential to re-create societal conceptions of motherhood, such a change has yet to occur in toto. Rather, certain aspects of biological motherhood continue to be seen as more permanent than social motherhood.

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