Francesca Lagomarsino, Ilaria Coppola, R. Parisi, N. Rania
The lockdown management during the COVID-19 pandemic has been very complex for families. The present study is part of a broader interdisciplinary research and follows the gender perspective, which has made it possible to bring a focus on the pandemic starting with women who, within family dynamics, have suffered most from the effects of the lockdown, having to manage multiple roles simultaneously and in the same place. The data were collected through an on-line survey. The aim is to understand how family routines were structured during the lockdown and how women’s emotional regulation developed during this period. Moreover, a further area of investigation focused on the distribution of domestic work and childcare among partners and on the relationships between smart working and the family dimension. The participants are 300 women living in different Italian region. The data highlights how during lockdown women with children have more regulatory and relational routines than women without children and that during this period both regulatory and relational routines become less consistent. It also emerges that women perceive that they dedicate more time to domestic activities and childcare than their partners do and that the time dedicated to childcare is greater in the 0-6 year range. Moreover, it emerges clearly how reconciling the smart working with the family dimension is not always easy.
{"title":"Care Tasks and New Routines for Italian Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from Women","authors":"Francesca Lagomarsino, Ilaria Coppola, R. Parisi, N. Rania","doi":"10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.401","url":null,"abstract":"The lockdown management during the COVID-19 pandemic has been very complex for families. The present study is part of a broader interdisciplinary research and follows the gender perspective, which has made it possible to bring a focus on the pandemic starting with women who, within family dynamics, have suffered most from the effects of the lockdown, having to manage multiple roles simultaneously and in the same place. The data were collected through an on-line survey. The aim is to understand how family routines were structured during the lockdown and how women’s emotional regulation developed during this period. Moreover, a further area of investigation focused on the distribution of domestic work and childcare among partners and on the relationships between smart working and the family dimension. The participants are 300 women living in different Italian region. The data highlights how during lockdown women with children have more regulatory and relational routines than women without children and that during this period both regulatory and relational routines become less consistent. It also emerges that women perceive that they dedicate more time to domestic activities and childcare than their partners do and that the time dedicated to childcare is greater in the 0-6 year range. Moreover, it emerges clearly how reconciling the smart working with the family dimension is not always easy.","PeriodicalId":38025,"journal":{"name":"Italian Sociological Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"847"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46026349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In recent months, COVID-19 has distorted our everyday life in unexpected and violent ways, irreversibly devastating our apparently strong world structures. Although each country has tried to cope with the crisis, the repercussions on health, economy, social and family life, have quickly emerged around the world. The pandemic has redefined the criteria for health and well being as much as the virus itself. Moved by this unprecedented emergency, the family suffers the effects of the virus in a mirror like way quite different from the effect on the individuals in that space, whose relationships - out of equilibrium - fall apart when hit by the classic tension-accommodation dichotomy (Simmel, 1895). This tension is generated by the fear of death and disease, keeping pace with the growth of the pandemia, a common realization byway of an uncertain future; as well as by the financial strains that weigh on an already precarious personal and family economy, as well as by the expression of feelings that change our language and relationship to each other, proposing caution and circumspection. Within the home, time and personal space are necessarily subject to new forms of management, sharing, and redefinition. We have used a qualitative methodology of narrated communication using semi-structured interviews and in-depth interviews. Our research illustrates ways in which understanding the impact of the pandemic on our families and the new vulnerabilities that derive from it, activate mechanisms to contain the tensions associated with them and the new needs that gradually emerge.
{"title":"In the Time of COVID-19: Love and Transformations in the Family","authors":"G. Cersosimo, P. Marra","doi":"10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.395","url":null,"abstract":"In recent months, COVID-19 has distorted our everyday life in unexpected and violent ways, irreversibly devastating our apparently strong world structures. Although each country has tried to cope with the crisis, the repercussions on health, economy, social and family life, have quickly emerged around the world. The pandemic has redefined the criteria for health and well being as much as the virus itself. Moved by this unprecedented emergency, the family suffers the effects of the virus in a mirror like way quite different from the effect on the individuals in that space, whose relationships - out of equilibrium - fall apart when hit by the classic tension-accommodation dichotomy (Simmel, 1895). This tension is generated by the fear of death and disease, keeping pace with the growth of the pandemia, a common realization byway of an uncertain future; as well as by the financial strains that weigh on an already precarious personal and family economy, as well as by the expression of feelings that change our language and relationship to each other, proposing caution and circumspection. Within the home, time and personal space are necessarily subject to new forms of management, sharing, and redefinition. We have used a qualitative methodology of narrated communication using semi-structured interviews and in-depth interviews. Our research illustrates ways in which understanding the impact of the pandemic on our families and the new vulnerabilities that derive from it, activate mechanisms to contain the tensions associated with them and the new needs that gradually emerge.","PeriodicalId":38025,"journal":{"name":"Italian Sociological Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"711"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48727060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The pandemic represents a turning point which affects the micro‐politics of managing productive, reproductive and social life in our new everyday lives. In this article, we make a contribution to the recent and growing scientific debate by exploring academic researchers’ processes of construction and de-construction of spatial, temporal and relational boundaries that take place in the pandemic work-life stay-at-home style. Particular attention is paid to some macro-structural drivers of work and family life, specifically the role of gender and the organisational culture of the neoliberal university. We chose an exploratory, qualitative, non-directive methodology in order to grasp the permeability between the public and the private that this pandemic, as ever before, makes clear. The empirical material consists of ten in-depth narrative video-interviews conducted online with Italian researchers living in different Regions. The article offers an empirical analysis of working from home with a specific focus on the academic context, which is a privileged setting for the investigation of gender inequalities. The analysis sheds light on subjective experiences of the disarticulation of boundaries and their intertwining with the neoliberal ideal type of academic researcher that have unequal consequences on the experience of time-space, productivity, and intimate relationships between men and women, women with and without children and people who live alone or with family.
{"title":"Academic and Research Work from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy: A Gender Perspective","authors":"A. Carreri, A. Dordoni","doi":"10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.400","url":null,"abstract":"The pandemic represents a turning point which affects the micro‐politics of managing productive, reproductive and social life in our new everyday lives. In this article, we make a contribution to the recent and growing scientific debate by exploring academic researchers’ processes of construction and de-construction of spatial, temporal and relational boundaries that take place in the pandemic work-life stay-at-home style. Particular attention is paid to some macro-structural drivers of work and family life, specifically the role of gender and the organisational culture of the neoliberal university. We chose an exploratory, qualitative, non-directive methodology in order to grasp the permeability between the public and the private that this pandemic, as ever before, makes clear. The empirical material consists of ten in-depth narrative video-interviews conducted online with Italian researchers living in different Regions. The article offers an empirical analysis of working from home with a specific focus on the academic context, which is a privileged setting for the investigation of gender inequalities. The analysis sheds light on subjective experiences of the disarticulation of boundaries and their intertwining with the neoliberal ideal type of academic researcher that have unequal consequences on the experience of time-space, productivity, and intimate relationships between men and women, women with and without children and people who live alone or with family.","PeriodicalId":38025,"journal":{"name":"Italian Sociological Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"821"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41798213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study explored the effects of social isolation from lockdown on Italian families in terms of work-family balance, family functioning and parenting. 104 parents (80.8% mothers) with at least one child aged from 2 to 14 years participated in the study. An ad-hoc scale explored work-family balance; Family Environment Scale and Perceived collective family efficacy scale examined respectively parents’ perceived quality of family relationships and beliefs in family’s efficacy; one single question and an ad-hoc scale measured respectively parenting stress and positive parenting. Our findings evidenced an increase of parenting stress due to the social isolation and the persistency of gender inequalities in not-paid work division causing a penalty for mothers. Nevertheless, during the lockdown, families rediscovered the values of being together inside the house, improving both their cohesion and expressiveness and their positive parenting. Overall, the study shows that Italian families have been resilient and not overwhelmed by family stress, being able to adjust to cope with lifestyle changes. However, the social changes caused by the emergency requires to plan adequate policies to support especially dual-earner families with younger children in these times, both to reduce parenting stress and to avoid that work-family balance difficulties and gender gap will be exacerbated, increasing the risk to relegating women to the domestic sphere during the next phases of this pandemic.
{"title":"Families in the Pandemic Between Challenges and Opportunities: An Empirical Study of Parents with Preschool and School-Age Children","authors":"Caterina Balenzano, Giuseppe Moro, S. Girardi","doi":"10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.398","url":null,"abstract":"The study explored the effects of social isolation from lockdown on Italian families in terms of work-family balance, family functioning and parenting. 104 parents (80.8% mothers) with at least one child aged from 2 to 14 years participated in the study. An ad-hoc scale explored work-family balance; Family Environment Scale and Perceived collective family efficacy scale examined respectively parents’ perceived quality of family relationships and beliefs in family’s efficacy; one single question and an ad-hoc scale measured respectively parenting stress and positive parenting. Our findings evidenced an increase of parenting stress due to the social isolation and the persistency of gender inequalities in not-paid work division causing a penalty for mothers. Nevertheless, during the lockdown, families rediscovered the values of being together inside the house, improving both their cohesion and expressiveness and their positive parenting. Overall, the study shows that Italian families have been resilient and not overwhelmed by family stress, being able to adjust to cope with lifestyle changes. However, the social changes caused by the emergency requires to plan adequate policies to support especially dual-earner families with younger children in these times, both to reduce parenting stress and to avoid that work-family balance difficulties and gender gap will be exacerbated, increasing the risk to relegating women to the domestic sphere during the next phases of this pandemic.","PeriodicalId":38025,"journal":{"name":"Italian Sociological Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"777"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46839837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Coronavirus pandemic immediately has taken on a global nature, transcending any national border, and unfolding its dramatic effects on every sphere of society: from health to economy, from politics to social relations. The lockdown of States and Regions has obligated everyone to isolation for long months, abruptly putting a stop to several social practices that were finding expression in daily physical places: working activities, education, leisure time, and cultural expressions. Many common efforts were directed to reorganise all these social and productive practices under quarantined time, growing the risk to degenerate on a temporal extension of daily life, and social-space dimension shrinking. This essay is focused on analysing how lockdown is affecting the daily life of families. Starting from a survey on families of students at University of Naples Federico II, it aims to reflect on family network’ dynamics pre and during lockdown.
{"title":"Families and Intimate Relationships during COVID-19: Family Networks of Neapolitan Students","authors":"Maria Camilla Fraudatario, Riccardo Zaccaria","doi":"10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.397","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus pandemic immediately has taken on a global nature, transcending any national border, and unfolding its dramatic effects on every sphere of society: from health to economy, from politics to social relations. The lockdown of States and Regions has obligated everyone to isolation for long months, abruptly putting a stop to several social practices that were finding expression in daily physical places: working activities, education, leisure time, and cultural expressions. Many common efforts were directed to reorganise all these social and productive practices under quarantined time, growing the risk to degenerate on a temporal extension of daily life, and social-space dimension shrinking. This essay is focused on analysing how lockdown is affecting the daily life of families. Starting from a survey on families of students at University of Naples Federico II, it aims to reflect on family network’ dynamics pre and during lockdown.","PeriodicalId":38025,"journal":{"name":"Italian Sociological Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"753"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47062064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The spread of the pandemic represented the upheaval of the order constituted (status quo), as the most evident data. It’s possible to think of the dynamics within the EU, the relationship between the various political systems, taken as single entities and in their inter-institutional relationships. The Coronavirus also called into question strategies that seemed politically well established, for example the ways the US electoral campaigns are conducted and shed a light on political dynamics and practices that usually are less talked about, if not in a detrimental manner, such as the polices carried out by political representatives such as Mr Erdogan and Mr. Orban. It has unbalanced economic-financial domains, which imposed themselves as unassailable, as it has been the case for China. But, not least, the pandemic has disarticulated social and relational models, in every country of the world. Not even the First and the Second World Wars had achieved that. Everything, inevitably, will result in a rethinking of the regulatory and decision-making processes; likewise, the ‘way’ of life and the ways relationships are built will undergo a ‘restoration’ process based on the redefinition of needs, expectations and, above all, desires. Those will have to be identified according to a new series of elementary and essential rights to be guaranteed to everyone.
{"title":"Systemic Regeneration and Circular Society","authors":"A. Rufino","doi":"10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13136/ISR.V10I3S.404","url":null,"abstract":"The spread of the pandemic represented the upheaval of the order constituted (status quo), as the most evident data. It’s possible to think of the dynamics within the EU, the relationship between the various political systems, taken as single entities and in their inter-institutional relationships. The Coronavirus also called into question strategies that seemed politically well established, for example the ways the US electoral campaigns are conducted and shed a light on political dynamics and practices that usually are less talked about, if not in a detrimental manner, such as the polices carried out by political representatives such as Mr Erdogan and Mr. Orban. It has unbalanced economic-financial domains, which imposed themselves as unassailable, as it has been the case for China. But, not least, the pandemic has disarticulated social and relational models, in every country of the world. Not even the First and the Second World Wars had achieved that. Everything, inevitably, will result in a rethinking of the regulatory and decision-making processes; likewise, the ‘way’ of life and the ways relationships are built will undergo a ‘restoration’ process based on the redefinition of needs, expectations and, above all, desires. Those will have to be identified according to a new series of elementary and essential rights to be guaranteed to everyone.","PeriodicalId":38025,"journal":{"name":"Italian Sociological Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"911"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48951453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this essay is to analyse how surrogate motherhood is represented both in academic and scientific debate and in the everyday lives of homosexual people. The work is structured as follows. The main dilemmas facing surrogate motherhood are discussed – is it self-determination or the exploitation of women? Does the money involved denote the purchase and sale of a human being or a gift of one’s own capacity? How is motherhood defined within the surrogacy of motherhood? – and the various answers produced by the many theories and research on the subject described. Subsequently, the symbolic and cultural representations of surrogacy by the gay people interviewed are presented.
{"title":"What we talk about when we talk about surrogacy. The symbolic representations of surrogate motherhood among gays","authors":"Luca Guizzardi","doi":"10.13136/ISR.V10I3.371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13136/ISR.V10I3.371","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this essay is to analyse how surrogate motherhood is represented both in academic and scientific debate and in the everyday lives of homosexual people. The work is structured as follows. The main dilemmas facing surrogate motherhood are discussed – is it self-determination or the exploitation of women? Does the money involved denote the purchase and sale of a human being or a gift of one’s own capacity? How is motherhood defined within the surrogacy of motherhood? – and the various answers produced by the many theories and research on the subject described. Subsequently, the symbolic and cultural representations of surrogacy by the gay people interviewed are presented.","PeriodicalId":38025,"journal":{"name":"Italian Sociological Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"579-603"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49451227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, I present partial results of two researches conducted on US surrogacy within two different fertility clinics of Southern California (2014-2016; 2017-2020). This paper analyzes the experiences of 50 US surrogates who had a baby (or twins) for international intended parent(s) in where the communication between parties was poor or almost absent and in where the rhetoric of the gift was carried out most by clinics and agencies that arranged the surrogacy journeys observed rather than the interviewees. I will show how the transformations undergone by surrogacy in the United States have changed some axes causing a change in the relationships between international parents and surrogates, and on the language used to refer to this practice as a gift.
{"title":"Gift Narratives of US Surrogates","authors":"C. S. Guerzoni","doi":"10.13136/ISR.V10I3.370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13136/ISR.V10I3.370","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I present partial results of two researches conducted on US surrogacy within two different fertility clinics of Southern California (2014-2016; 2017-2020). This paper analyzes the experiences of 50 US surrogates who had a baby (or twins) for international intended parent(s) in where the communication between parties was poor or almost absent and in where the rhetoric of the gift was carried out most by clinics and agencies that arranged the surrogacy journeys observed rather than the interviewees. I will show how the transformations undergone by surrogacy in the United States have changed some axes causing a change in the relationships between international parents and surrogates, and on the language used to refer to this practice as a gift.","PeriodicalId":38025,"journal":{"name":"Italian Sociological Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"561-577"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43823339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Recent scholarships on neoliberal practices document how, in varied settings, people who would benefit from regulation embrace the neoliberal logic. Drawing on ethnographic research on the largest US online surrogacy support forum I explore surrogates’ discussions of choices and responsibilities. Surrogates maintain that infertile couples, whom they see as emotionally vulnerable, have no choice but to turn to surrogacy. Surrogates claim to be well-informed, intelligent, independent, and empathic woman who assume responsibility for the legal, relational, and medical aspects of pregnancy and reject standardization of ‘surrogacy journeys’. They want more oversight of fertility clinics and surrogacy agencies but ultimately argue for individual accountability. Surrogates’ discussions provide insights into the reasons why practitioners are, in many ways, in alignment with neoliberal ideas and practices: because they are compatible with collective definition of surrogacy as a private rather than a business relationship.
{"title":"‘Surrogates All Make that Choice to Help’: Surrogacy in the Neoliberal Reproductive Market","authors":"Zsuzsa Berend","doi":"10.13136/ISR.V10I3.369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13136/ISR.V10I3.369","url":null,"abstract":"Recent scholarships on neoliberal practices document how, in varied settings, people who would benefit from regulation embrace the neoliberal logic. Drawing on ethnographic research on the largest US online surrogacy support forum I explore surrogates’ discussions of choices and responsibilities. Surrogates maintain that infertile couples, whom they see as emotionally vulnerable, have no choice but to turn to surrogacy. Surrogates claim to be well-informed, intelligent, independent, and empathic woman who assume responsibility for the legal, relational, and medical aspects of pregnancy and reject standardization of ‘surrogacy journeys’. They want more oversight of fertility clinics and surrogacy agencies but ultimately argue for individual accountability. Surrogates’ discussions provide insights into the reasons why practitioners are, in many ways, in alignment with neoliberal ideas and practices: because they are compatible with collective definition of surrogacy as a private rather than a business relationship.","PeriodicalId":38025,"journal":{"name":"Italian Sociological Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"537"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41336427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Undoubtedly, the title of this issue of Italian Sociological Review could be read as a dogmatic defense of the practice of surrogate motherhood as well as of gestational surrogacy – but it is not. On the contrary, this issue represents an attempt to give voice to the individuals and their ideas, representations and experiences about surrogacy rather than to social ideologies, ontologies or theories. Instead of judging – as an a priori assumption – that surrogacy is always bad , the articles outline the conditions thanks to which surrogacy can be a good way to have a child – or to help someone to have their child. [...]
{"title":"Debating on Surrogacy. Different Voices on the Goodness of Surrogate Motherhood","authors":"D. Viviani, Luca Guizzardi","doi":"10.13136/ISR.V10I3.368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13136/ISR.V10I3.368","url":null,"abstract":"Undoubtedly, the title of this issue of Italian Sociological Review could be read as a dogmatic defense of the practice of surrogate motherhood as well as of gestational surrogacy – but it is not. On the contrary, this issue represents an attempt to give voice to the individuals and their ideas, representations and experiences about surrogacy rather than to social ideologies, ontologies or theories. Instead of judging – as an a priori assumption – that surrogacy is always bad , the articles outline the conditions thanks to which surrogacy can be a good way to have a child – or to help someone to have their child. [...]","PeriodicalId":38025,"journal":{"name":"Italian Sociological Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"535-536"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47409420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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