One could well assume that the contours of the postcolonial anti-natalist state is a given,
rarely noticed by the surrogates themselves. As James Scott poetically noted in Weapons of …

This book offers an account of why families are valuable. Or rather, since some families are,
alas, dreadful, it offers an account of why “the family” is valuable—why it is generally a good …

Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed
philosophical examination of children's rights. David Archard provides a clear and …

In this ethnography of transnational commercial surrogacy in a small clinic in India, the
narratives of two sets of women involved in this new form of reproductive travel–the …

Perhaps,'children's citizenship'is a misnomer, as children are in some respects 'not citizens':
they have not 'come of age'and consequently do not have many of the privileges (such as …

This title was first published in 2003. This book critically examines the moral and political
status of the child by a consideration of three interrelated questions: What rights if any does …

There has been extensive philosophical discussion, especially in recent years, of the idea of
children's rights. Little if any of this work, however, makes reference to what must be seen as …

2. GA Cohen does not wish to reject the principle that “every person has a right to pursue
self-interest to some reasonable extent (even when that makes things worse than they need …

This paper presents four different understandings of the family and their concomitant views
of the authority of the family in pediatric medical decision making. These different views are …

'Another important contribution to the growing literature on critical social work. It is on the
cutting edge of thinking about social work and its goal of social change.'-Kate van Heugten …