{"id":5519,"date":"2008-12-22T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2017-09-16T16:34:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T21:34:28","slug":"distributing-motherhood-by-race-class-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/22\/distributing-motherhood-by-race-class-and-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Distributing Motherhood by Race, Class, and Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin B. sent us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/30\/magazine\/30Surrogate-t.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a story in the New York Times magazine<\/a> chronicling one woman&#8217;s decision to have a surrogate carry her biological child.\u00a0 Surrogacy is, from one perspective, extremely expensive and, from another perspective, extremely lucrative.\u00a0 The photos accompanying the story illustrate, almost as if by design, how &#8220;mothering&#8221; is being spread out in systematic ways to different kinds of women.\u00a0Robin note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/30\/magazine\/30Surrogate-t.html?ref=magazine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the accompanying article<\/a> bought up lots of issues, but did little to think them through.\u00a0\u00a0 In contrast, she points to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/14\/magazine\/14letters-t-HERBODYMYBAB_LETTERS.html?partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a set of letters<\/a> written in response.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin B. sent us a link to a story in the New York Times magazine chronicling one woman&#8217;s decision to have a surrogate carry her biological child.\u00a0 Surrogacy is, from one perspective, extremely expensive and, from another perspective, extremely lucrative.\u00a0 The photos accompanying the story illustrate, almost as if by design, how &#8220;mothering&#8221; is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2083,29,55,2088,778,272,285,1760,1757],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortionreproduction","tag-class","tag-gender","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-intersectionality","tag-marriagefamily","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70874,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions\/70874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}