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thestarrfish's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
3.0
I appreciate what the author set out to do, and I appreciate her thesis, however I feel the argument (and book) was poorly constructed. It felt less like a book intended to argue for full surrogacy and more like a book aiming to critique surrogacy as it currently is (particularly at one clinic in India, and not enough globally). There was not a great deal of visioning of what the author thought full surrogacy could look like or how to make it happen. The book seemed so thoroughly targeted at theorists and academics, using deeply inaccessible language that made me wonder how it was meant to reach the masses or encourage tangible societal change,
uranianmenace's review against another edition
4.0
Sophie Lewis largely exists within the 21st Century Autonomist Feminism movement that grew out of post-war Italian Feminism and as such this text draws mainly Federici and Precaido for her more long form theorization.
I would say that this is a must-read for anyone interested in feminist/queer perspectives on biotechnology and/or reproductive justice.
Lewis does a great job at centering trans/queer people in this text and it is clear she is attempting/involved with multidirectional coalition building.
At this time this text is the best theory text i’ve read in 2022
I would say that this is a must-read for anyone interested in feminist/queer perspectives on biotechnology and/or reproductive justice.
Lewis does a great job at centering trans/queer people in this text and it is clear she is attempting/involved with multidirectional coalition building.
At this time this text is the best theory text i’ve read in 2022
miaheartsbooks's review against another edition
Full Surrogacy Now is a really hard book to review, because it seemed full of really interesting arguments about gestational work as labour, what it could mean to withhold that labour, the moral frameworks around surrogacy that uphold capitalism, and moving from family units to communal structures of gestation and child-rearing. However, the structure and the dense academic writing made this radical book seem quite inaccessible, and I often struggled to understand what was being said.
sopitasoup's review against another edition
laziness... hoped to finish this in time for a book club discussion but did not find the time. i hope to pick this up again in the near future
debv23's review against another edition
2.0
This was overly academic so much that it was hard to understand. And half of it was criticism directed at a specific person, which undermined the thoughtful argument. But some of the perspective made me think about the means of production and where power lies.
shermansays's review against another edition
challenging
dark
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0