This review reports on the experiences of surrogates and intended parents of surrogacy
arrangements. The findings from 47 studies, conducted across 12 countries and …

Making Families: Transnational Surrogacy, Queer Kinship, and Reproductive Justice. We
were seeking to bring into direct conversation three theoretical frameworks that have each …

This article explores one of the contemporary contexts of reproductive decision-making: gay
men's paths to surrogacy within the globalised USA fertility industry. The stories collected …

Background Surrogacy is a form of assisted human reproduction whereby a surrogate
woman carries a pregnancy for a commissioning couple or individual. There are two types of …

Until early 2022, within the global fertility industry, Ukraine was one of the most important
destinations for reproductive travel worldwide, particularly specializing in gestational …

In gestational surrogacy arrangements, the womb is often figured as a holding environment
that brings the child of commissioning parents to fruition but does not shape fetal identity …

Objectives: Women's healthcare is a potential source of cross-cultural conflicts. Diverging
values between healthcare providers and patients challenges the provision of culturally …

Parenthood is a transforming and enduring experience worldwide, yet it occurs in culturally
distinctive ways. Anthropologists' analyses of this aspect of social life need to attend to these …

In the 2000s, same sex partnership laws, new reproductive technologies, and legislation
rendering lesbian couples and single women eligible for state-funded assisted reproduction …

Gestational surrogacy–carrying someone else's baby (or babies) to term and giving birth to
them–is perhaps one of the most intimate acts a human being can perform for others …