Being and Being Bought - Ekis Ekman, Kajsa
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In 1998, Sweden passed ground-breaking legislation criminalizing the purchase of sexual services which sought to curb demand and support women exiting the sex industry. Grounded in the reality of the violence and abuse inherent in prostitution-and reeling from the death of a friend to prostitution in Spain-Kajsa Ekis Ekman exposes the many lies in the 'sex work' scenario. Trade unions aren't trade unions. Groups for prostituted women are simultaneously groups for brothel owners. And prostitution is always presented from a woman's point of view. The men who buy sex are left out. Drawing on…mehr

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In 1998, Sweden passed ground-breaking legislation criminalizing the purchase of sexual services which sought to curb demand and support women exiting the sex industry. Grounded in the reality of the violence and abuse inherent in prostitution-and reeling from the death of a friend to prostitution in Spain-Kajsa Ekis Ekman exposes the many lies in the 'sex work' scenario. Trade unions aren't trade unions. Groups for prostituted women are simultaneously groups for brothel owners. And prostitution is always presented from a woman's point of view. The men who buy sex are left out. Drawing on Marxist and feminist analyses, Ekis Ekman argues that the Self must be split from the body to make it possible to sell your body without selling yourself. The body becomes sex. Sex becomes a service. The story of the sex worker says: the Split Self is not only possible, it is the ideal. Turning to the practice of surrogate motherhood, Kajsa Ekis Ekman identifies the same components: that the woman is neither connected to her own body nor to the child she grows in her body and gives birth to. Surrogacy becomes an extended form of prostitution. In this capitalist creation story, the parent is the one who pays. The product sold is not sex but a baby. Ekis Ekman asks: why should this not be called child trafficking? This brilliant exposé is written with a razor-sharp intellect and disarming wit and will make us look at prostitution and surrogacy and the parallels between them in a new way.
Autorenporträt
Kajsa Ekis Ekman was born in Stockholm in 1980. She is an author and a critic at the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter and a member of the editorial collective of the anarchist magazine Brand. She has a Master's Degree in Literature from Sö dertö rn University. Her first book Varat och varan [Being and Being Bought] was published in Sweden in 2010 by Leopard Fö rlag. Her second book, Skulden- eurokrisen sedd frå n Aten [Debt as a Weapon: The euro crisis seen from Athens] was published in September 2013 (Leopard Fö rlag). In 2021, her book Om kö nets existens - tankar on den nya synenpå kö n was published by Bokfö rlaget Polaris. It was published by Spinifex in 2023 as On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts about the New Definition of Women, translated by Kristina Mä ki. Kajsa also founded the network, Feminists Against Surrogacy and the climate action group, Klimax.