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Towards The Abolition Of Surrogate Motherhood
Paperback Edition: 1
In this eloquent and blistering rejection of surrogacy, a range of international activists and experts in the field outline the fundamental human rights abuses that occur when surrogacy is legalised and reject neoliberal notions that the commodification of women's bodies can ever be about the 'choices' women make.
Yoshie Yanagihara shows how feminist ideas have been twisted to extend men's freedom and their rights to access surrogacy. Catherine Lynch rails against surrogacy as the creation of babies for the express purpose of removal from their mothers, outlining the tragic outcomes for adopted people. Phyllis Chesler argues that commercial surrogacy is matricidal, slicing and dicing biological motherhood into egg donor, 'gestational' mother and adoptive mother. Melissa Farley debunks the myth of 'choice' in surrogacy, arguing that in a male-dominated and racist system, the exploitative sale of women in surrogacy, like in prostitution, is inherently harmful - rich women do not make the choice to become surrogates or prostitutes.
Other contributors to this book, which is published in conjunction with the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood, are Gena Corea, Renate Klein, Gary Powell, Rita Banerji, Marie-Josephe Devillers, Laura Isabel Gomez Garcia, Eva Maria Bachinger, Alexandra Clement-Saby, Taina Bien-Aime, Silvia Guerini, Laura Nuo Gomez and Eva Maria Bachinger.
Editors Marie-Josephe Devillers and Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram are long-term activists against surrogacy and live in France.
Publisher : Spinifex Press
Pages : 232
Publication date : 2021-11-30
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in Australia, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sociology, Ethical Issues & Debates, Feminism & Feminist Theory