ABSTRACT
Many intending parents who commission surrogacy arrangements assert a claim to agency through adopting the role of repropreneur, actively engaging with the fertility market so as to achieve their desire to have a child. This chapter focuses on how the websites of surrogacy clinics often appear to rely upon the taken-for-grantedness of women's bodies when marketing to intending parents. Specifically, it suggests that women's bodies are so naturalized within the websites of surrogacy clinics that they almost disappear. In the case of surrogacy, however, speaking about women who act as surrogates as producers of goods does not align with the ways in which surrogacy services and the cultural contexts they exist within attempt to mitigate the commodification of women's bodies by focusing on narratives of choice and agency. The chapter presents an analysis of the information provided about surrogacy pathways available to gay men on twelve clinic websites.
