Chasing the blood tie: Surrogate mothers, adoptive mothers and fathers

American Ethnologist

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 352-365

  Ragoné, Helena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Family; Kinship; Nurturance; Parenthood; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030542404     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.1996.23.2.02a00090     Document Type: Article

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