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A review by fredrikke
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis
3.0
this book has left me quite ambivalent, i think a lot of what lewis was trying to convey got lost in the excessive use of labeling. for a person insisting on using the term "pregnant people" instead of mothers and women i found the use of other labels quite over the top.
the language used is too much a lot of the time, and i must admit i spent a lot of time looking up labels i did not understand. i have also learnt that i do not like the word gestate.
even though this book raised some interesting points and questions i do not feel like i understand lewis' view on surrogacy. i understand that the goal is to abolish families, because it takes a village to raise a child, however i do not understand how lewis has come to this conclusion. the last chapter; amniotechnics also left me quite confused.
what i did like about this book is that there are a lot of references to other films, books, lectures, essays etc. and i was quite excited to go through the resources lewis has used for this book. i did also enjoy the questions it raised, although some of them are quite far out.
the language used is too much a lot of the time, and i must admit i spent a lot of time looking up labels i did not understand. i have also learnt that i do not like the word gestate.
even though this book raised some interesting points and questions i do not feel like i understand lewis' view on surrogacy. i understand that the goal is to abolish families, because it takes a village to raise a child, however i do not understand how lewis has come to this conclusion. the last chapter; amniotechnics also left me quite confused.
what i did like about this book is that there are a lot of references to other films, books, lectures, essays etc. and i was quite excited to go through the resources lewis has used for this book. i did also enjoy the questions it raised, although some of them are quite far out.