One way to keep up with the state of progressive thought is to browse the new releases from Verso Books. This year they promise titles such as Radical Happiness; Revolting Prostitutes; The Xenofeminist Manifesto; and Collected Works, Volume 3 from a curious author called VI Lenin. Another interesting book is Full Surrogacy Now.
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family has been written by the feminist author Sophie Lewis, and is due to be published in May. “Rather than making surrogacy illegal or allowing it to continue as it is,” Lewis argues, “we should be looking to radically transform it.” This entails improving the conditions of surrogate mothers but also normalising and popularising surrogacy in order to “break down our assumptions that children necessarily belong to those whose genetics they share”.
