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Marxism and Surrogacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Kelly Oliver
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Abstract

In this article, 1 argue that the liberal framework—its autonomous individuals with equal rights—allows judges to justify enforcing surrogacy contracts. More importantly, even where judges do not enforce surrogacy contracts, the liberal framework conceals gender and class issues which insure that the surrogate will lose custody of her child. I suggest that Marx's analysis of estranged labor can reveal the class and gender issues which the liberal framework conceals.

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Hypatia , Volume 4 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Ethics and Reproduction , Fall 1989 , pp. 95 - 115
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Copyright © 1989 by Hypatia, Inc.

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