"Defending Surrogacy Labour"
Prof. Straehle (University of Ottawa and University of Hamburg) will discuss themes from her forthcoming book, "Debating Surrogacy" (with Anca Gheaus, Oxford University Press, 2024).
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Here is some information about the book from the publisher's website:
"Surrogacy is the commissioning of a woman to gestate and give birth to a child for another would-be parent. The practice raises several ethical questions, such as the commodification of the surrogate and of the baby, and the exploitation of the surrogate, issues which have been extensively debated. This book offers a fresh take on surrogacy, by concentrating on questions which bear on its justifiability: Is providing gestational services a permissible way of employing a woman's body? Indeed, is it a legitimate form of work? Are the children born out of surrogacy in any way wronged by surrogacy agreements?
In the first part of the book, Christine Straehle proposes an account of surrogacy work as legitimate work for women, as a way to realize certain goals in women's lives through the fruit of their labour. She defends a right to become a surrogate as necessary to protect women's autonomy."
You can read more about the book at Oxford University Press - Academic - Debating Surrogacy