Full surrogacy now : feminism against family / Sophie Lewis.

  • Lewis, Sophie
Date:
2021
  • Books

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Description

"Giving birth is commonly called labor. What happens if all of human pregnancy and gestation is thought from the labor point of view? If it is all labor, then how can that labor be freed from now global regimes of colonial and commodity exploitation? That's the challenge of Full Surrogacy Now. The new lens on labor it gives us opens up crucial challenges and questions: What are the connections between the bodily labor of gestating and other forms of biological, social, and ecological production and reproduction? How can we politicize (human and nonhuman) work that's treated as natural, taken for granted, and done for free? Why is the impossible concept of "surrogacy" crucial to our collective liberation? And what might organizing based on solidarity between the "shopfloors" of paid and unpaid babymaking have to do with the often forgotten liberation horizon of family abolition?" -- Provided by the publisher.

Publication/Creation

New York : Verso, 2021.

Physical description

viii, 216 pages ; 20 cm

Notes

Originally published: 2019.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- "But aren't you against it?" -- The world's (other) oldest profession -- Dr. Patel leans in -- "She did it for the money" -- Another surrogacy is possible -- Amniotechnics.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TPH /LEW
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1786637308
  • 9781786637307
  • 1786637294
  • 9781786637291