Alys Eve Weinbaum is Professor of English at the University of Washington, author of Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought, and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, both also published by Duke University Press.

"Weinbaum's book is both a contribution to a rich Black feminist theoretical archive on reproductive politics and a celebration of work by Black feminist scholars-particularly Black feminist legal scholars, including Dorothy Roberts and Anita Allen-who have long considered the intersections of surrogacy, slavery, and logics of property.… Weisenbaum's original and incisive text gives us new tools to think about reproductive freedom and reminds us that any idea of reproductive freedom requires Black feminist theoretical innovation and imagination." - Jennifer C. Nash (Modern Language Quarterly) "Ultimately, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery does not disappoint. It does the job of demonstrating the complex connections between the gendered and racialised reproductive exploitation and extraction during the historical Atlantic slave trade period and today exceedingly well." - Gina Marie Longo (Feminist Encounters) "The book offers much-needed critical perspectives on the racializing processes at the center of reproductive labor and commodification. . . . Ulitmately, Weinbaum's analysis shows the importance of thinking historically and offers insights into the ways in which gendered, racialized, and sexualized forms of oppression that have roots in slavery continue to motivate biocapitalism today." - Daisy Deomampo (Catalyst)

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction. Human Reproduction and the Slave Episteme  11. The Surrogacy/Slavery Nexus  292. Black Feminism as a Philosophy of History  613. Violent Insurgency, or "Power to the Ice Pick"  884. The Problem of Reproductive Freedom in Neoliberalism  1115. A Slave Narrative for Postracial Times  147Epilogue. The End of Men and the Black Womb of the World  177Notes  187Bibliography  243Index  275

Alys Eve Weinbaum is Professor of English at the University of Washington, author of Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought, and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, both also published by Duke University Press.

"Weinbaum's book is both a contribution to a rich Black feminist theoretical archive on reproductive politics and a celebration of work by Black feminist scholars-particularly Black feminist legal scholars, including Dorothy Roberts and Anita Allen-who have long considered the intersections of surrogacy, slavery, and logics of property.… Weisenbaum's original and incisive text gives us new tools to think about reproductive freedom and reminds us that any idea of reproductive freedom requires Black feminist theoretical innovation and imagination." - Jennifer C. Nash (Modern Language Quarterly) "Ultimately, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery does not disappoint. It does the job of demonstrating the complex connections between the gendered and racialised reproductive exploitation and extraction during the historical Atlantic slave trade period and today exceedingly well." - Gina Marie Longo (Feminist Encounters) "The book offers much-needed critical perspectives on the racializing processes at the center of reproductive labor and commodification. . . . Ulitmately, Weinbaum's analysis shows the importance of thinking historically and offers insights into the ways in which gendered, racialized, and sexualized forms of oppression that have roots in slavery continue to motivate biocapitalism today." - Daisy Deomampo (Catalyst)

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction. Human Reproduction and the Slave Episteme  11. The Surrogacy/Slavery Nexus  292. Black Feminism as a Philosophy of History  613. Violent Insurgency, or "Power to the Ice Pick"  884. The Problem of Reproductive Freedom in Neoliberalism  1115. A Slave Narrative for Postracial Times  147Epilogue. The End of Men and the Black Womb of the World  177Notes  187Bibliography  243Index  275

Alys Eve Weinbaum is Professor of English at the University of Washington, author of Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought, and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, both also published by Duke University Press.

"Weinbaum's book is both a contribution to a rich Black feminist theoretical archive on reproductive politics and a celebration of work by Black feminist scholars-particularly Black feminist legal scholars, including Dorothy Roberts and Anita Allen-who have long considered the intersections of surrogacy, slavery, and logics of property.… Weisenbaum's original and incisive text gives us new tools to think about reproductive freedom and reminds us that any idea of reproductive freedom requires Black feminist theoretical innovation and imagination." - Jennifer C. Nash (Modern Language Quarterly) "Ultimately, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery does not disappoint. It does the job of demonstrating the complex connections between the gendered and racialised reproductive exploitation and extraction during the historical Atlantic slave trade period and today exceedingly well." - Gina Marie Longo (Feminist Encounters) "The book offers much-needed critical perspectives on the racializing processes at the center of reproductive labor and commodification. . . . Ulitmately, Weinbaum's analysis shows the importance of thinking historically and offers insights into the ways in which gendered, racialized, and sexualized forms of oppression that have roots in slavery continue to motivate biocapitalism today." - Daisy Deomampo (Catalyst)

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction. Human Reproduction and the Slave Episteme  11. The Surrogacy/Slavery Nexus  292. Black Feminism as a Philosophy of History  613. Violent Insurgency, or "Power to the Ice Pick"  884. The Problem of Reproductive Freedom in Neoliberalism  1115. A Slave Narrative for Postracial Times  147Epilogue. The End of Men and the Black Womb of the World  177Notes  187Bibliography  243Index  275