Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family

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Lewis might argue that the goal is not to eliminate these kinds of families at all, but rather to proliferate caring relations.

Please list any fees and grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in or any close relationship with, at any time over the preceding 36 months, any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response. The influence of radical and cyborg feminists (for example, Firestone Reference Firestone1970; Haraway Reference Haraway1991) is clear here. Adopting this expanded concept of surrogacy helps us to see that it always, as the saying goes, takes a village to raise a child. Her translations include Communism for Kids by Bini Adamczak (MIT, 2016, with Jacob Blumenfeld), A Brief History of Feminism by Antje Schrupp (MIT, 2017) and Unterscheiden und Herrschen by Paula-Irene Villa and Sabine Hark (Verso, 2020). Lewis takes one of the most everyday things about being human and thinks it through from the point of view of a cyborg communism.It offers both a convincing polemic about surrogacys past and present, and a vision of how to make it both more common and more mutually beneficial.

One character in “The Farm,” Ate, tirelessly works as a cook, a maid, and a baby nurse to support her disabled adult son in the Philippines, whom she hasn’t seen for more than twenty years. What if we did not fetishise biological connection to children and did reproductive labour more communally?

I will reread this book for the sense it gives me that new ways of making one another and the world new might, in fact, be possible.

Neither simply natural nor banally cultural, gestation appears as the unthought core of gender and sexual politics, and the key of a forthcoming womb revolution: trans-Marx meets mammal's politics! But this would be somewhat of a romanticization of families in the vision; a romanticization that Lewis, at the same time, wants to avoid about pregnancy or the family. Lewis notes not all people who could get pregnant would do this work now, just as not all those who could be brain surgeons or trash collectors would take up that work, and we can suppose this extends to a reproductive commune. Meadhbh Murray is a feminist sociologist interested in the politics of knowledge, organisations and audit processes, and higher education.In June, when the New York State Assembly considered a bill that would legalize paid surrogacy, Gloria Steinem vigorously opposed it. Why are we so committed to the traditional biological family when so many children feel stymied and exhausted by their parents, and so many parents feel stymied and exhausted by their children? the book is particularly strong when it is giving information on sub movements within feminism arguing on surrogacy. For a business that deals in common ingredients and a mature technology, surrogacy is curiously expensive. In doing so we can break down our assumptions that children necessarily belong to those whose genetics they share.