Abstract
Zsuzsa Berend is a sociology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and her 2016 book, The Online World of Surrogacy is an ethnographic study of surrogacy in the United States. Berend explores the cultural and emotional work American surrogates actively engage in with one another on Surrogate Mothers Online (SMO, http://surromomsonline.com), the largest online (and public) surrogacy support website. Specifically, this book focuses on the meanings that surrogates collectively make in relation to ideas of relatedness, surrogacy contracts, money, and the concept of ‘the gift’ that is pervasive in discourses about and academic analyses of surrogacy.
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