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Too much of the text is taken up with the case of transnational commercial surrogacy that has attracted most attention, that of Dr Nayana Patel's Akanksha Hospital and Research Institute in Anand, Gujarat, and too much of Lewis's account is aimed to make it clear, as if it would be doubted, that this is a profit-making venture portrayed as philanthropy, the result being that she adds little to the existing literature (Pande, 2014, Rudrappa, 2015, Vora, 2015) or to the stated themes of the book.

I begin with these details in the text because I think they are part of a wider defensive attitude that throws off course the development of a positive argument that the title promises - for 'full surrogacy', and against the family. For her part, Julie Bindel is an adamant opponent of commercial surrogacy, who regards it as combining the worst aspects of capitalism and patriarchy, and selfish into the bargain. I'm not sure how she knows this, and in any case it could still be likened to other forms of work in which affective bonds are established and through which subjectivity is constituted. As regards 'work', Dolezal's argument, from a phenomenological 'body schema' perspective, is that the maternal-foetal relationship is a communicative one in which an important affective bond is established, and hence a subjectivity- and kinship-constituting experience, whether or not there is a genetic link. Lewis no more thinks that the surrogate is a 'container' than Dolezal does (she starts out by insisting on the physiological exchanges that take place between the foetus and the body in which it develops), so that is not an issue between them.

Elsewhere she refers to the danger that she will be mistaken for 'a 'neoliberal' advocate of the industry' (33), citing as evidence a hostile tweet from Julie Bindel in May 2018 claiming that she 'loves surrogacy' (ft. So it strikes me as over-dramatic when Lewis remarks half way through this book that she has become 'a messenger who needs to be shot' for arguing that surrogacy is work, citing in doing so Luna Dolezal's contention that 'Pregnancy cannot be likened to other forms of 'work' or labour, and any container or production metaphors are necessarily inadequate' (Dolezal, 2017, p. It is in the nature of things that academics disagree with each other.

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