Ana-Luana Deram

Institut de Recherche et de Formation à l'Action Sociale de l'Essonne (IRFASE), France · Social Policies

The practice of surrogacy motherhood has been developing for several decades. To describe and analyze it, several aspects are considered: the motivation and remuneration of the surrogate mother; the origin of the genetic material used; its regulation or prohibition. However, whatever the distinctions induced by the consideration of these aspects, s...

Book Review

My body is my own business"-One of the fundamental postulates of feminism and democratic society. Women in many countries fight for the right to do abortion, right to wear any clothe which they like without judging and sexual harassment. So why did we decide we have right to choose for surrogate mother, why do we think we are more clever?" BioTexCo...

Dictionaries specialized in social sciences not only witness the social and intellectual status of words belonging to such a variety of fields but also regulate, in palimpsest, the significance of those words. An analytic and chronological reading of definitions given to the word nation shows that the latter acquires a conceptual status whereas the...

For almost a century there was a lack of adequate reflection in French sociology on analysis of the nation. The explanation of this delay may lie in the foundations of the discipline itself. But in a major contribution, Marcel Mauss pointed the way to a sociology of the nation. For him, the development of the nation as an object of a new reflection...