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Often, we think of surrogacy as the problem, but, \u003ci\u003eFull Surrogacy Now\u003c\/i\u003e argues, we need more surrogacy, not less!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRather than looking at surrogacy through a legal lens, Lewis argues that the needs and protection of surrogates should be put front and center. Their relationship to the babies they gestate must be rethought, as part of a move to recognize that reproduction is productive work. Only then can we begin to break down our assumptions that children “belong” to those whose genetics they share. Taking collective responsibility for children would radically transform our notions of kinship, helping us to see that it always takes a village to make a baby.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304956604789,"sku":"9781786637307","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786637307_b33abd77-9297-488c-9505-9ab4c49168d9.jpg?v=1786025677"},{"product_id":"9798888902493","title":"Enemy Feminisms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of \u003cem\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/em\u003e, an unflinching tour of two hundred years of enemy feminisms, making the case instead for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn recent years, \"white feminism\" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSophie Lewis offers an unflinching tour of enemy feminisms, from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Enemy feminisms exist. Feminism is not an inherent political good. Only when we acknowledge that can we finally reckon with the ways these feminisms have pushed us toward counterproductive and even violent ends. And only then can we finally engage in feminist strategizing that is truly antifascist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a left transfeminist battlecry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, \u003cem\u003eEnemy Feminisms \u003c\/em\u003eis above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311416684917,"sku":"9798888902493","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798888902493_9f45c42e-9fde-47dc-9806-abb2a31355b0.jpg?v=1786032707"},{"product_id":"9781681379340","title":"East of Dreams","description":"\u003cb\u003eDisplaced after the fall of the Soviet Union, an indigenous family works to reclaim their former self-sufficient way of life in this lyrical work of anthropology and colonial Russian history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe work of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martin has taken her to Alaska, where she worked with the indigenous Gwich'in people, and across the Bering Strait to Kamchatka, where she lived and studied among the Even community. Both regions, both peoples, had been on the front line of the Cold War and in its aftermath were placed in a new and anomalous relation to government authority. These vast and remote areas, long treated as colonies, now found themselves newly neglected and newly free. The family of the Even matriarch Daria, for example, known to readers of Martin's earlier book \u003ci\u003eIn the Eye of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, decided to leave behind the urban existence enforced upon them in the Soviet period and return to the Icha forest to lead a self-sufficient life based on hunting, fishing, and gathering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe end of the Cold War brought the beginning of a new era in which the effects of global warming have proved ever more destructive. \u003ci\u003eEast of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, like \u003ci\u003eIn the Eye of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, mixes memoir and ethnography, as Martin looks at how indigenous peoples continue to take the measure of massive ongoing change. She also looks to them for new ways of understanding the relations between humankind, the human mind, and the larger world of nature, seen to exist on a vital continuum. \u003ci\u003eEast of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e offers a radical anthropological epistemology for our troubled times.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369118642549,"sku":"9781681379340","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681379340_4e7901bd-e2ba-4b1e-abd4-f118e6e51512.jpg?v=1786024628"},{"product_id":"femmephilia","title":"Femmephilia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnemy Feminisms \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolish the Family\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, a fierce critique of femmephobia within feminism, and a vision of a life-giving femme\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003efeminism for all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eFor two centuries, feminists have tried to be respectable and serious. 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