Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2026
Summary
Surrogacy is heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry, which seeks new markets for women over 40 and gay men who believe they have a ‘right’ to their own children and ‘family foundation’. Pro-surrogacy groups in rich countries lobby for the shift to commercial surrogacy. Their capitalist neo-liberal argument is that a well-regulated fertility industry would avoid the exploitative practices of poor countries.
Central to the project of transnational surrogacy is the ideology that…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922964366 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922964360 |
| Author: | Renate Klein |
| Publisher: | Spinifex Press |
| Imprint: | Spinifex Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 180mm x 138mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Renate Klein
Dr. Renate Klein
Dr. Renate Klein holds an MSc from Zürich University, a BA (Honours) in Women’s Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and a PhD in Sociology of Education from the University of London. She was a Research Associate in the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Zürich.
Klein was Associate Professor, Women’s Studies at Deakin University until her retirement in 2006, where she taught courses on International Feminism, Reproductive Medicine, and Feminist Ethics. Since the early 1980s, she has conducted critical feminist research on new and old reproductive technologies, including international population control, IVF, hormonal and immunological contraceptives, RU 486, and Gardasil. With Dr. Susan Hawthorne, she co-founded the independent feminist publishing company Spinifex Press in Melbourne in 1991.
She is the (co)author/(co)editor of 19 previous books, including Test-Tube Women: What Future for Motherhood?; Infertility: Women’s Experiences with Reproductive Medicine; RU 486: Misconceptions, Myths and Morals; Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed; Cyberfeminism; and Not Dead Yet.
Dr. Klein has authored 23 book chapters and 40 journal articles. Her latest article on international surrogacy was published in Arena (March 2025).
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