By Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Drawing on Marxist and feminist analyses, Ekis Ekman argues that the Self has to be cut up from the physique to give the chance to promote your physique with no promoting your self. The physique turns into intercourse. intercourse turns into a provider. the tale of the intercourse employee says: the break up Self is not just attainable, it's the excellent.
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She desired to have a number of extra days to assert goodbye to the kid. Patrik used to be nonetheless anxious that Marie might switch her brain and wish to maintain the kid, yet that didn’t ensue. within the morning once they have been going to go back and forth, it used to be pitch black. Marie, Patrik and Jens stood quietly within the hallway and held one another. every person cried. whilst the taxi got here, they parted with out a note. Marie’s tear-drenched face within the window used to be the final they observed of her. no longer till they have been settled in at the send with Linnea among them did they dare chill out and start to just accept the whole truth of what had occurred. that they had turn into mom and dad. the thing ends with an interview in question-and-answer structure with an American surrogate (it isn’t transparent if this can be additionally Marie) who says such things as it's a “fantastic event to endure a baby for somebody else” and that she “didn’t remorse it for a moment. ” She used to be making completely no calls for of her personal, and in line with the query of even if she would wish to satisfy her baby, she solutions: “Absolutely, if the fogeys imagine it truly is applicable. ” an editorial in Expressen starts off with the phrases: “André, 20 days previous, has come domestic” (Kazmierska, 6 April 2009). A Swedish couple had employed a girl in Ukraine to undergo a baby for them, however the baby couldn't get a Swedish passport because it used to be legally from Ukraine. the thing expresses doubtless approximately even if the Swedish couple are the child’s actual mom and dad, or that Sweden is the child’s domestic nation. The vital factor is a “family” that are meant to “be united. ” the fogeys have been “confused approximately why their child child didn’t get a Swedish passport” (my emphasis), till the former Conservative occasion chief, baby-kisser Bo Lundgren, intervened. whilst the kid was once allowed to go into the rustic, it was once “an huge, immense aid. ” the item ends, as and they do, fortunately: “For 133 Being and Being obtained John, Sara and André, a cheerful finishing. The kin is again domestic in Sweden …” the mum who gave start to the kid doesn't have a voice within the tale, it is just in brief pointed out that she is from Ukraine, had youngsters formerly and needed to provide start to André through Caesarean part as the placenta was once misaligned within the uterus. The surrogate is usually provided as satisfied, and the purchasers as well-established, sturdy, higher middle-class who will supply the kid the absolute best upbringing. there's by no means any query: it's the couple that can pay for the child who contain the ‘true’ family members. the girl who offers start isn't awarded because the child’s mom or perhaps a individual with a history and a will of her own—she is simply a sort soul, a fairy godmother, who is helping the folk who pay for the kid get what they need. In Marie’s case, inspite of her tear-drenched face and wish to spend a pair extra days together with her child, she is able to make this sacrifice for the men’s sake. in basic terms in passing does the reader discover that the couple paid funds for the kid, and such articles by no means say how a lot. Nor do they take care of the genuine crux of the tale, girl indicators away custody for cash, or query even if this may be thought of trafficking in infants.