Susan Markens is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at City University of New York, Lehman College.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Unfamiliar Families? 1. The New Problem of Surrogate Motherhood: Legislative Responses 2. "Choice" and the "Best Interests of Children": Claiming the Problem of Surrogate Motherhood 3. "Moral Conundrums and Menacing Ambiguities": Framing the Problem of Surrogate Motherhood 4. Competing Frames of Surrogacy: Comparing Newspapers' Coverage of "Horror Stories" 5. Unity, Divisions, and Strange Bedfellows: Divergent Legislative Responses to Surrogate Motherhood 6. A Brave New World? Reproductive Politics from the Past to the Present Appendix A: A Note on Methods and Data Appendix B: A Multistate Comparison of the Impact of Sponsor's Gender and Prochoice Position on the Success of Surrogacy Bills Notes Bibliography Index