Families and Kinship

'Surrogate motherhood and American Kinship'

Ragone (2004)

Key Points / arguments / concepts

Exploration of the changes to American kinship ideology through the rise of medical advances in relation to assisted reproduction

Surrogacy and donor insemination still perpertrate core family concepts

The family is the essential unit of closeness and love

Means of achieving relatedness have changed yet the vigorous emphasis on the family remains unchanged

Surrogate motherhood - de-emphasises the blood tie between surrogate and…