Alys Eve Weinbaum is Professor of English at the University of Washington,¿author of Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought, and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, both also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Human Reproduction and the Slave Episteme  1
1. The Surrogacy/Slavery Nexus  29
2. Black Feminism as a Philosophy of History  61
3. Violent Insurgency, or "Power to the Ice Pick"  88
4. The Problem of Reproductive Freedom in Neoliberalism  111
5. A Slave Narrative for Postracial Times  147
Epilogue. The End of Men and the Black Womb of the World  177
Notes  187
Bibliography  243
Index  275

Alys Eve Weinbaum is Professor of English at the University of Washington, author of Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought, and coeditor of The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization, both also published by Duke University Press.