Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self
Being and Being Bought: Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self
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Kajsa Ekman in conversation with Liberal Voice for Women
Kajsa Ekman is a Swedish award-winning author and journalist writing on women's rights, geopolitics, economics and capitalist crisis. She is the founder and editor in chief of Parabol magazine. She writes for the culture section of the Swedish major daily Aftonbladet and is a columnist at the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen.
Kajsa Ekis Ekman has authored four books. Her book Being and Being Bought – Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self (Spinifex, 2013) has been published in five languages. It depicts how the two industries of prostitution and surrogacy that both commodify women have grown over the past decades. It also describes how both industries are normalized by an unholy alliance between the neoliberal right and the postmodern left, which itself celebrates reification as an ideal.
Skulden-eurokrisen sedd från Aten “The debt-euro crisis seen from Athens”
(Leopard, 2013 and Kedros, 2014) describes how the eurocrisis affected the Greek economy. It combines an analysis of the imbalances inherent in the euro system, with a depiction of the troika years in Greece – from the aganaktismenoi of Syntagma Square to the general strike, up until the Syriza takeover. The book won her the award “Swedish-Greek of the Year” 2014.
‘Texter 1998-2015’ (ETC Förlag) is a collection of essays written between 1998 and 2015 on Swedish politics, Palestine, Latin America, China and other topics.
On The Meaning of Sex (Spinifex, 2022) discusses gender identity theory and its implications for women, children and homosexuals. It discusses the rise in applicants for sex reassignment surgery, consequences of treatments and self-ID laws. It also analyzes the shift from queer to trans politics. It moreover analyzes from a feminist and Marxist perspecive what happens when the word ”woman” is fragmented, meant to mean its exact opposite, made taboo or obsolete. Without the word woman, what is the women's movement?