Being and Being Bought
Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self
$32.32
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2025
Summary
In 1998, Sweden passed ground-breaking legislation that criminalized the purchase of sexual services, aiming to curb demand and support women exiting the sex industry. Grounded in the reality of the violence and abuse inherent in prostitution—and reeling from the death of a friend to prostitution in Spain—Kajsa Ekis Ekman exposes the many lies in the ‘sex work’ scenario: Trade unions aren’t trade unions. Groups for prostituted women are simultaneously groups for brothel owners. And prostituti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922964205 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922964204 |
| Author: | Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Suzanne Martin Cheadle |
| Publisher: | Spinifex Press |
| Imprint: | Spinifex Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 220mm x 140mm x 12mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
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
About The Author
Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Stockholm born, Kajsa Ekis Ekman 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 Södertörn University and is author of Skulden - eurokrisen sedd från Aten (Leopard Förlag 2013). She has founded the network delete comma, Feminists Against Surrogacy and the climate action group, Klimax.
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