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Full surrogacy now, feminism against family, Sophie Lewis

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Full surrogacy now

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Sophie Lewis

feminism against family

The feminist implications of the current billion-dollar surrogacy industry show it to be insufficient in terms of its treatment of women, while there is also a call for more surrogacy as an emancipatory force for women, with these ideas reconciled here by }Jacobin{ and }Viewpoint{ contributor Lewis., Where pregnancy is concerned, let every pregnancy be for everyone. Let us overthrow, in short, the "family"The surrogacy industry is estimated to be worth over $1 billion a year, and many of its surrogates around the world work in terrible conditions-deception, wage-stealing and money skimming are rife; adequate medical care is horrifyingly absent; and informed consent is depressingly rare. In Full Surrogacy Now, Sophie Lewis brings a fresh and unique perspective to the topic. Often, we think of surrogacy as the problem, but, Full Surrogacy Now argues, we need more surrogacy, not less!Rather than looking at surrogacy through a legal lens, Lewis argues that the needs and protection of surrogates should be put front and center. Their relationship to the babies they gestate must be rethought, as part of a move to recognize that reproduction is productive work. Only then can we begin to break down our assumptions that children "belong" to those whose genetics they share. Taking collective responsibility for children would radically transform our notions of kinship, helping us to see that it always takes a village to make a baby

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