Surrogate maternity through three commercial films

Abstract

Surrogate motherhood, pregnancy by substitution or the surrogacy, among others, are some of the terms used in discussions of this topic and which first documented case took place in Michigan (USA) in 1976. This article is based on different concepts related to surrogate motherhood (SM), three films are analyzed from different point of view, Femmes ou maitresses (2001) by J.M. Pallardy, Comme les autres (2008) by V. Garent and Melody (2014), by B. Bellefroid, and eventually, the relationship between female poverty and surrogate motherhood is considered.

Keywords

• maternidad subrogada
• “vientres de alquiler”
• gestación por sustitución
• cine