A review by devinbookman
Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Anne Lewis

5.0

Neither supportive of the current state of surrogacy nor critical of the practice in general, this book is instead a clear, powerful, nuanced examination of the value and ubiquity of surrogacy as a concept, the fault in assuming surrogacy as it currently exists to serve capitalists is adequate or representative of the practice, and the necessity of coming to terms with and expanding our societal understanding of surrogacy in a broader global context. Lewis blurs the lines between what we perceive as biological motherhood and surrogacy, rejecting the hierarchy we take for granted in gestational labor and ownership. Full Surrogacy Now is meandering at times, but each tangent ultimately addresses the book's central premise that we need to accept surrogacy while simultaneously radically transforming it and our assumptions of what it entails. Highly recommended.