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The Power of the Single Story: Surrogacy and Social Media in Israel
1a Department of Behavioral Sciences , Ruppin Academic Center , Emek Hefer , Israel.
Abstract:
Analyzing interviews with 20 Jewish-Israeli gestational surrogates who gave birth in 2014-2016, I examine the common narrative structure of their personal stories and the way that this becomes what Adichie calls a "single story". This idealized, romanticized, utopian story includes: 1. an intimate bond between surrogate and intended parents; 2. an epic birth; 3. a happy ending, told publicly. After illustrating this structure, I present the consequences of this single story for surrogates whose experiences diverged from, yet were constantly compared to, the "perfect journey" narrative. Anthropologists of reproduction must pay careful attention to digital storytelling as a new reproductive technology.
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