Nothing Natural
Jenny Turner: SurrogacyTM, 23 January 2020
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism against Family
by Sophie Lewis.
Verso, 216 pp., £14.99, May 2019,978 1 78663 729 1 Show More
by Sophie Lewis.
Verso, 216 pp., £14.99, May 2019,
Making Kin Not Population
edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway.
Prickly Paradigm, 120 pp., £10, July 2018,978 0 9966355 6 1 Show More
edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway.
Prickly Paradigm, 120 pp., £10, July 2018,
“... already a body modification technology,’ as Lewis puts it, in the footsteps of Gayle Rubin and Judith Butler: the home, the wedding ring, even the binary sexuation, are only there by convention, honoured – or not – by time. ‘Natural’ childbirth, with pools and music and aromatic midwives, is ‘a regimen full of carefully stylised gestational ... ”
