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# Other mothers #

## Other mothers ##

Ryan Schram

ANTH 2654: Forms of Families

22 October 2015

Available at: http://anthro.rschram.org/2654/12

## Lecture outline ##

* Back To The Future Day is 21 October 2015
  - Why don't we have flying cars?
* Essay topics: finding contradictions in culture
* Change as a [[:Identity and contradiction|dialectic]]
  - Thesis, antithesis, synthesis
  - It's kind of like being pregnant. A woman is a mother when she is *recognized* by her child.
* Surrogacy as synthesis
  - Wombs for rent
  - New kinds of agency
* The limits of performativity
  - 'Kinship is part of who you are' versus 'Kinship comes from what you do.'
  - Are these different cultural constructs, or two sides of the same coin?
  - You can performatively enact kinship, but you can't do it alone.