02214nam a2200313 i 4500001001900000003000600019005001700025008004100042020002900083035002100112035002600133040002700159041001200186100004100198245006900239250002300308264002800331300002900359500003400388504005100422520116200473650003301635650004201668650003701710650003401747942000801781952009601789999001501885990231195860107026UkOxU20250617072957.0220926s2021    enk      b    001 0 eng d  a9781786637307qpaperback  a(UkOxU)023119586  a(UkOxU)023119586BIB01  aUkOxUbengerdacUkOxU  aEnglish  aLewis, Sophieq(Sophie A.),eauthor.10aFull surrogacy now b: feminism against family c/ Sophie Lewis.  aPaperback edition. 1aLondon :bVerso,c2021.  aviii, 216 pages ;c20 cm  aFirst published: Verso, 2019.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aWhere 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. 0aSurrogate motherhood.925479 0aSurrogate mothersxSocial conditions. 0aSurrogate mothersxCivil rights. 0aPregnancyxPolitical aspects.  2lcc  00102lcc4070aTBSbTBSd2025-06-17l0oHQ755.5 LEWpB07558r2025-06-17t1w2025-06-17y1  c4752d4752