“A Tale of Two Surrogates: A Graphic Narrative on Assisted Reproduction” explores the complicated emotional, medical, legal, and ethical issues surrounding assisted reproduction. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research conducted by anthropologist Elly Teman, Ph.D., and sociologist Zsuzsa Berend, Ph.D., this book presents, in an accessible and entertaining graphic novel format, the intertwined stories of two fictional women who decide to become gestational surrogates. The experiences of the two composite characters, Jenn, from California, and Dana, from Tel Aviv, highlight various paths, interpretations, and experiences that are common in surrogacy.
HBI is delighted to have supported Teman’s and Berend’s work with a Research Award and that Teman continued her research and writing while an HBI Research Associate.
Elly Teman, Ph.D., is an associate professor of medical anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ruppin Academic Center in Israel. She is the author of an ethnography on gestational surrogacy in Israel entitled “Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self,” which won three book prizes from the American Anthropological Association.
Zsuzsa Berend, Ph.D., teaches courses on economic sociology and the sociology departmental honors thesis seminar at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her book, “The Online World of Surrogacy,” was published by Berghahn Books in 2016.
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