Kinship Theory

Hester Kaplan

first published 2000 Little, Brown, 2000 hardcover 277 pages

""Who better than a mother to do it? It's just reversing the natural order a bit," Dale explains when she asks her mother to bear the child she cannot have herself. Maggie Crown, forty-seven, divorced, and a scientist, says yes to her daughter, and through gestational surrogacy is soon carrying a baby that is "hers to love, but not to keep." As Maggie's relationship with her daughter is thrown into new and often pai...

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Kinship Theory paperback · 2002 · Back Bay Books · 304 pages · 9780316504263
Kinship Theory paperback · 2001 · The Women's Press · 272 pages · 9780704347212
Kinship theory hardcover · 2000 · Little, Brown · 277 pages · 9780316482110

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