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Being and Being Bought : Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSpinifex Press

ISBN-101742198767

ISBN-139781742198767

eBay Product ID (ePID)177548058

Product Key Features

Number of Pages223 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameBeing and Being Bought : Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self

Publication Year2014

SubjectReproductive Medicine & Technology, Parenting / Motherhood, Women's Studies, Prostitution & Sex Trade

TypeTextbook

AuthorKajsa Ekis Ekman

Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Medical

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10.1 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

SynopsisDrawing on Marxist and feminist analyses, Ekis Ekman argues that the Self must be split from the body to make it possible to sell your body without selling yourself. The body becomes sex. Sex becomes a service. The story of the sex worker says: the Split Self is not only possible, it is the ideal., In 1998, Sweden passed ground-breaking legislation criminalizing the purchase of sexual services which sought 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 prostitution is always presented from a woman' s point of view. The men who buy sex are left out. Turning to the practice of surrogate motherhood, Kajsa Ekis Ekman identifies the same components: that the woman is neither connected to her own body nor to the child she grows in her body and gives birth to. Surrogacy becomes an extended form of prostitution. In this capitalist creation story, the parent is the one who pays. The product sold is not sex but a baby. Ekis Ekman asks: why should this not be called child trafficking?