The Online World of Surrogacy

<p> Zsuzsa Berend presents a methodologically innovative ethnography of SurroMomsOnline.com the largest surrogacy support website in the United States. Surrogates' views emerge from the stories debates and discussions that unfold online. <em>The Online World of Surrogacy</em> documents these collective meaning-making practices and explores their practical emotional and moral implications. In doing so the book works through themes of interest across the social sciences including definitions of parenthood the symbolic role of money reproductive loss altruism and the moral valuation of relationships.</p>