Being and Being Bought

It may seem outrageous to many of the proponents of commercial surrogacy that we might compare the position of the prostitute to that of the surrogate, but Ekman does an effective job of explaining the very real parallels. Grazyna Zajdow, Arena Magazine

Kajsa Ekis Ekman was born in Stockholm. She writes for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter and is on the editorial collective of the anarchist magazine Brand. She has an MA in Literature from Sdertrn University and is author of Skulden - eurokrisen sedd frn Aten (Debt as a Weapon: The euro crisis seen from Athens, Leopard Frlag, 2013). She has founded the network, Feminists Against Surrogacy and the climate action group, Klimax.

Contents Preface PART I Prostitution Chapter One: The Story of the Sex Worker or How Prostitution Became the Worlds Most Modern Profession The Sex Worker and the Feminist Sexual Orientation The Victim and the Subject A Slippery Slope: From the Independent Escort to Human Trafficking and Children The Invulnerable Person The Narrator The Cult of the Whore The Worlds Oldest Profession: Regulation The Drainage Model Chapter Two: An Industry is Born1970 to present The 1970s: The Sex Industry Expandsand Gets Into Trouble The 1980s: Holland Takes Up the Thread The 1990s: HIV/AIDSMoney Comes Through The New Millennium: Unions for Sex Workers The International Union of Sex WorkersPimps Les Putes/STRASSThe Men The International Committee of the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe The Researchers mbit DnaThe Social Workers The Industry False Faades Rhetoric from the LeftMoney from the Right Power TransformedThe Legacy of 1968 Chapter Three: The Self and the Commodity in the Sex Industry My body is not my Self Sex is not the body ReificationWhen Sexuality becomes a Commodity The Struggle for the Woman The Buyers Dilemma The Postmodern Story: A False Dialectic The Way Out PART II Surrogate Motherhood Chapter Four: The Reality of Surrogacy Background The Buyers and the Bearers of the Bought Chapter Five: The Story of the Happy Breeder Happy Families A Revolutionary Act The Feminist Arguments Prostitution Child Trafficking Sold with Fatal Relativism Turning the Law of Demand and Supply into a Human Right On the Term Surrogate Mother The Capitalist Creation Myth For a Friends Sake About Altruistic Surrogacy Chapter Six: Inside the Surrogacy Industry Uterus Pimps About the Agencies The Most Surrogacy-Friendly Courts in the World They are sad for a few weeks, but it passes quickly The Ultimate Reification The Virgin Mary in the Marketplace Women who Change their Minds: I am not a surrogate; I am a mother Bibliography Acknowledgements Index