Book on Surrogacy – Call for paper - Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood

ICASM, International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood, launches a call for contributions for a forthcoming publication

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This book should draw up a kind of inventory of abolitionist feminist points of view on Surrogacy, crossing a variety of viewpoints and different approaches (essays, studies, testimonies, chronicles, humour, …).

We warmly invite community leaders, activists, civil society people, academics, professionals …to respond to this call for papers

Contribution rules

Contributors: activists, people from civil society, academics, professionals …
Deadline: NEW DEADLINE october, 15, 2020
Text size: 18 000 characters, spaces included
Langue: English, French or Spanish
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Possible Topics

Quantitative data

Surrogacy market: Who are the actors and
the beneficiaries?
Polls : how to interpret them?
Surrogacy statistics
Surrogacy throughout the world

Personal experiences

Resistance to reproductive pressure
(society, family …)
Gays under pressure to have babies
Lesbians facing gay demand for surrogacy
Magistrates, politicians, teachers,
heath patricians and surrogacy
Couples relationship

Deconstruct stereotypes such as:

Surrogacy is medical
“My body, my choice” : surrogacy is about
individual freedom
With gestational surrogacy, there is no
mother-child link
Being against surrogacy is homophobic
Refusing surrogacy is being reactionary
Strictly controlled surrogacy is ethical
Surrogacy is altruistic
Access to surrogacy and abortion are part
of the same struggle
Surrogacy a matter of equality: MAP for lesbians, Surrogacy for gays

Different perspectives

- Surrogacy and policy positions
- Equality, dignity… (human principles)
  and surrogacy
- Surrogacy and ethics
- Surrogacy and religion
- Surrogacy in history
- Surrogacy and neo-liberalism