Cart
Free US shipping over $10
Proud to be B-Corp

Being and Being Bought Kajsa Ekis Ekman

Being and Being Bought By Kajsa Ekis Ekman

Being and Being Bought by Kajsa Ekis Ekman


$22.80
Condition - Like New
Only 1 left

Summary

Drawing 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.

Faster Shipping

Get this product faster from our US warehouse

Being and Being Bought Summary

Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self by Kajsa Ekis Ekman

In 1998, Sweden passed ground-breaking legislation criminalising 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. Drawing 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. 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? This brilliant expose is written with a razor-sharp intellect and disarming wit and will make us look at prostitution and surrogacy and the parallels between them in a new way.

Being and Being Bought Reviews

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 Kajsa Ekis Ekman

Kajsa Ekis Ekman was born in Stockholm. She 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 Soedertoern University and is author of Skulden - eurokrisen sedd fran Aten (Debt as a Weapon: The euro crisis seen from Athens, Leopard Foerlag, 2013). She has founded the network, Feminists Against Surrogacy and the climate action group, Klimax.

Table of Contents

Contents Preface PART I Prostitution Chapter One: The Story of the Sex Worker or How Prostitution Became the World's Most Modern Profession The 'Sex Worker' and the Feminist Sexual Orientation The Victim and the Subject A Slippery Slope: From the Independent Escort ... ... to Human Trafficking ... ... and Children The Invulnerable Person The Narrator The Cult of the Whore The World's Oldest Profession: Regulation The Drainage Model Chapter Two: An Industry is Born-1970 to present The 1970s: The Sex Industry Expands-and Gets Into Trouble The 1980s: Holland Takes Up the Thread The 1990s: HIV/AIDS-Money Comes Through The New Millennium: 'Unions for Sex Workers' The International Union of Sex Workers-Pimps Les Putes/STRASS-The Men The International Committee of the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe -The Researchers Ambit Dona-The Social Workers The Industry False Facades Rhetoric from the Left-Money from the Right Power Transformed-The Legacy of 1968 Chapter Three: The Self and the Commodity in the Sex Industry My body is not my Self Sex is not the body Reification-When Sexuality becomes a Commodity The Struggle for the Woman The Buyer's Dilemma The Postmodern Story: A False Dialectic The Way Out PART II Surrogate Motherhood Chapter Four: The Reality of Surrogacy Background The Buyers and the Bearers of the Bought Chapter Five: The Story of the Happy Breeder Happy Families A 'Revolutionary Act' The 'Feminist' Arguments Prostitution Child Trafficking Sold with Fatal Relativism Turning the Law of Demand and Supply into a Human Right On the Term 'Surrogate Mother' The Capitalist Creation Myth 'For a Friend's Sake' - About Altruistic Surrogacy Chapter Six: Inside the Surrogacy Industry Uterus Pimps - About the Agencies The Most Surrogacy-Friendly Courts in the World They are sad for a few weeks, but it passes quickly The Ultimate Reification The Virgin Mary in the Marketplace Women who Change their Minds: I am not a surrogate; I am a mother Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

Additional information

CIN1742198767LN
9781742198767
1742198767
Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self by Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Used - Like New
Paperback
Spinifex Press
2013-09-01
223
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

Customer Reviews - Being and Being Bought