Feminist convention for the abolition of surrogacy. Renate Klein -- Junk liberty / Gena Corea -- The geography of surrogacy / Marie-Josephe Devillers -- A 'Handmaid's Tale' in East Asia : pregnancy contracts pre-dating modern surrogacy / Yoshi Yanagihara -- Surrogacy : a new version of patriarchal myths about reproduction / Alexandra Clement-Saby -- How Oprah promoted India's global surrogacy market / Rita Banerji -- On the legalization of c0mmercial surrogacy : I thought we had abolished the sale of human beings / Phyllis Chesler -- 'Cuomo's handmaids' : New York legalizes reproductive commercial surrogacy / Taina Bien-Aime -- Surrogacy : a gay man's perspective / Gary Powell -- Procreation in the age of biotechnologies / Silvia Guerini -- The new surplus value : the reproductive mode of production / Laura Nuno Gomez -- Surrogacy and prostitution : the parallels / Melissa Farley -- Microchimerism : the mother-child bond that cannot be bought / Laura Isabel Gomez Garcia -- There is no right to a child / Eva Maria Bachinger -- Putting children first : what adoption can teach us about surrogacy / Catherine Lynch -- Strategies for stopping international surrogacy : beyond the compassion trap / Renate Klein -- Feminist convention for the abolition of surrogacy.
Summary:
"Surrogacy is not liberty. It is a crime. Women will not settle for junk liberty. We want real freedom - the substance, not just the appearance. We want real nourishment for our spirits. We want human dignity. We want it for all of us. We want it for women in Thailand and Bangladesh and Mexico as well as for the women who have not yet been born." -- Gena Corea. 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. "Harm cannot be regulated, because this would mean spreading and universalising it. - Silvia Guerini"" -- from publisher's website.
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