ABSTRACT
Genetic relatedness is often a valorized narrative amongst people who become parents through surrogacy. This chapter outlines in detail the orientation with regard to the topic of surrogacy, acknowledging that it holds the potential to be disorienting, precisely for the ways in which it directs a magnifying glass at the operations of capital and fantasy that is dually position surrogacy as intelligible within contemporary neoliberal contexts. Certainly, emphasising a capitalist logic is nothing new with regard to the topic of surrogacy. The chapter addresses the question of language with regard to surrogacy. It engages with some necessarily difficult questions concerning how the increasing number of surrogacy arrangements build upon ways of being oriented to oneself and to others that may in many ways be contrary to the desire to have a child 'of one's own'.
