Abstract:This paper analyzes the practice of surrogacy, in which a woman carries someone else’s baby, focusing on the gestational-labor process of these women, called “surrogates”. To present them as hybrid figures, I use Donna Haraway’s concept of cyborg as a heuristic resource. The stigma of the financial compensation for surrogates is analyzed through theoretical contributions about sex work – along with Goffman’s theatrical metaphors – to discuss how the idealized role of who a surrogate should be is linked to the … Show more
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