Full Surrogacy Now

Feminism Against Family

Hardcover, 240 pages

English language

Published May 7, 2019 by Verso Books.

ISBN:
978-1-78663-731-4
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OCLC Number:
1048943672
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The surrogacy industry is worth over 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all. Should it be illegal to pay someone to gestate a baby for you?

Full Surrogacy Now brings a fresh and unique perspective to the debate. Rather than making surrogacy illegal or allowing it to continue as is, Sophie Lewis argues we should be looking to radically transform it. Surrogates should be put front and centre, and their rights towards the babies they gestate should be expanded to acknowledge that surrogates are more than mere vessels. In doing so, we break down our assumptions that children necessarily belong to those whose genetics they share.

This might sound like a radical proposal, but expanding our idea of who children belong to would be a good thing. Taking collective responsibility for children, rather than …

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Subjects

  • Sociology
  • Feminism
  • Gender
  • Queer
  • Philosophy