02110nam a2200301 i 4500 990231195860107026 UkOxU 20250617072957.0 220926s2021 enk b 001 0 eng d 9781786637307 paperback (UkOxU)023119586 (UkOxU)023119586BIB01 UkOxU eng rda UkOxU English Lewis, Sophie (Sophie A.), author. Full surrogacy now : feminism against family / Sophie Lewis. Paperback edition. London : Verso, 2021. viii, 216 pages ; 20 cm First published: Verso, 2019. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Surrogate motherhood. 25479 Surrogate mothers Social conditions. Surrogate mothers Civil rights. Pregnancy Political aspects. lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-06-17 0 HQ755.5 LEW B07558 2025-06-17 1 2025-06-17 1 4752 4752