Chapter 1: An introduction to the problems of surrogacy and the demands from civil society.

Chapter 2: The study's origins and methodology.

Chapter 3: Features of a booming reproductive practice. The medical process, the market, the antecedents and the risks.

Chapter 4: Sociological perspectives across individual experiences, social structures and representations.

Chapter 5: Surrogacy in the United States: the horse is out of the barn.

Chapter 6: The Mexican case: the differences between autonomy and radical feminism.

Chapter 7: The Italian case: a strong opposition in the name of women's sexual identity and motherhood.

Chapter 8: Abolitionist and Regulatory Arguments into perspectives.

Chapter 9: Conclusions.