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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Heather JacobsonPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780813569512ISBN 10: 0813569516 Pages: 218 Publication Date: 15 March 2016 Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Conceptions2 Making Reproduction Profitable: The Contemporary Surrogacy Market 3 Laboring to Conceive: Surrogacy as Work 4 Managing Relations: Surrogates and Their IPs5 Working from Home: Surrogates and Their Families6 Obscured LaborNotesReferencesIndexReviews"""Labor of Love is a thorough, thoughtful, well-researched analysis of women's labor in the commercial gestational surrogacy market in the United States."" * Gender & Society * ""Jacobson argues that Americans should be more accepting of gestational surrogacy and freely acknowledge its financial side. She skillfully outlines the many ways in which the members of the US surrogacy community she interviewed deliberately obscure the financial aspects of surrogacy arrangements. Reproductive endocrinologists, lawyers, surrogacy agency personnel, intended parents, and “surro-moms” and their families almost all push a narrative of altruism and the joys of pregnancy as the primary motivations of women who bear babies for genetically unrelated parents. In fact, Jacobson argues, surrogacy is made “culturally palatable” in the US precisely because of the unwritten “money rules” that require the use of intermediaries to create distance between surro-moms and the sordidly financial... Recommended."" * Choice * ""Labor of Love beautifully illuminates the work of surrogacy, exploring a world in which women have children for other women. Jacobson skillfully interweaves stories of actual participants with commentary and analysis, providing original insights into the complexities of reproduction."" -- Naomi Cahn * Harold H. Greene Chair, GWU Law School * ""Labor of Love is an engaging and well-researched study of contemporary surrogacy in the U.S. Jacobson thoughtfully exposes the contradictions surrogates navigate as they downplay the commercial aspects of the transactions and obscure the labor involved in being a surrogate."" -- Susan Markens * Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY * ""Jacobson’s rich qualitative data about the surrogacy market’s inner workings make Labor of Love an informative and engaging read."" -- Alicia Vande Vusse * American Journal of Sociology *" Labor of Love beautifully illuminates the work of surrogacy, exploring a world in which women have children for other women. Jacobson skillfully interweaves stories of actual participants with commentary and analysis, providing original insights into the complexities of reproduction. --Naomi Cahn Harold H. Greene Chair, GWU Law School Labor of Love is an engaging and well-researched study of contemporary surrogacy in the U.S. Jacobson thoughtfully exposes the contradictions surrogates navigate as they downplay the commercial aspects of the transactions and obscure the labor involved in being a surrogate. --Susan Markens Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY Jacobson's rich qualitative data about the surrogacy market's inner workings make Labor of Love an informative and engaging read. --Alicia Vande Vusse American Journal of Sociology Labor of Love is an engaging and well-researched study of contemporary surrogacy in the U.S. Jacobson thoughtfully exposes the contradictions surrogates navigate as they downplay the commercial aspects of the transactions and obscure the labor involved in being a surrogate. --Susan Markens Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY Labor of Love beautifully illuminates the work of surrogacy, exploring a world in which women have children for other women. Jacobson skillfully interweaves stories of actual participants with commentary and analysis, providing original insights into the complexities of reproduction. --Naomi Cahn Harold H. Greene Chair, GWU Law School Labor of Love is an engaging and well-researched study of contemporary surrogacy in the U.S. Jacobson thoughtfully exposes the contradictions surrogates navigate as they downplay the commercial aspects of the transactions and obscure the labor involved in being a surrogate. --Susan Markens Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY <i>Labor of Love</i> is an engaging and well-researched study of contemporary surrogacy in the U.S. Jacobson thoughtfully exposes the contradictions surrogates navigate as they downplay the commercial aspects of the transactions and obscure the labor involved in being a surrogate. --Susan Markens Lehman College and The Graduate Center, CUNY Author InformationHEATHER JACOBSON is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is the author of Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference. 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