Surrogates employed several means for emotionally distancing themselves from the fetus. One was to react to any movement emanating from the belly area nonemotionally.

And when the pedants bade us mark / What cold mechanic happenings / Must come; our souls said in the dark, / Belike; but there are likelier things.

Wedges are used to tense the skin, and the agida is placed on the ground lengthwise for playing.

His multidisciplinary work emerges primarily from religious studies. Engel's eloquent intellectual, religious, and politically involved ecopragmatism is closely allied with ecofeminist feminism, but he, too, lacks an explicitly feminist analysis.