'Repellent to proper ideas about the procreation of children': Procreation and motherhood in the legal and ethical treatment of the surrogate mother

J. Burr
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Abstract

This paper explores how biological and social definitions of the family and appropriate maternal behaviour are conflated in the legal and ethical treatment of the surrogate mother with specific reference to genetic surrogacy. It is argued that the discourse of child welfare reinforces biological definitions of procreation and maternal behaviour through a narrow definition of the family in which women are tied to men in order to be classed as appropriate social mothers. The construction of the surrogate mother as the monstrous feminine in perpetuating gender roles is explored in the distinction between altruistic and commercial surrogacy. Ultimately it is argued that the controversy over surrogacy centres upon the innate challenge it presents to biological and patriarchal notions of procreation and appropriate maternal behaviour.
“排斥关于生育孩子的正确观念”:代孕母亲的法律和伦理待遇中的生育和母性
本文探讨了家庭的生物学和社会定义以及适当的母性行为如何在代孕母亲的法律和伦理处理中与遗传代孕的具体参考相结合。有人认为,关于儿童福利的论述通过对家庭的狭隘定义加强了对生育和母性行为的生物学定义,其中妇女与男子联系在一起,以便被归类为适当的社会母亲。在利他主义和商业代孕的区别中,代孕母亲作为一种怪异的女性在延续性别角色方面的建构被探讨。最终,有人认为,关于代孕的争议集中在它对生殖和适当的母性行为的生物学和父权制观念提出的先天挑战上。
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