Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family

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Read it and let’s imagine different constellations of care, love and family beyond the conservative restraint of supposed biology. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast.

Lewis frequently, if reluctantly, compares surrogacy to sex work, another industry that persists despite being illegal.

Their relationship to the babies they gestate must be rethought, as part of a move to recognize that reproduction is productive work.

At the same time, one could opt for developing alternative, better, and more appealing work opportunities to surrogacy so as not to make existing surrogates worse-off. Indeed, Lewis’s writing is incredibly reflexive; she applies her own analysis of a more collaborative and collective understanding of gestating to the book itself by acknowledging the long history and long future of co-thinkers and collaborators in this project. A portion of the book studies the Akanksha Fertility Clinic, in India, a surrogacy center that, according to Lewis, severely underpays and mistreats its workers.