Surrogate Motherhood, Women's Rights, and the Working Class

Examines how “surrogate mother” contracts exploit children and women; rights and responsibilities in child raising; and how these questions relate to the working-class struggle for economic justice and social progress.

Cindy Jaquith (1948–2020) joined the Young Socialist Alliance in the mid-1960s while a student in Minnesota. She wrote for the Militant beginning in 1972, including firsthand coverage of the revolution in Iran, and headed the paper’s Managua Bureau for more than two years during the Nicaraguan Revolution.

Jaquith is a coauthor of Panama: The Truth about the U.S. Invasion (1990) and author of Surrogate Motherhood, Women’s Rights, and the Working Class (1988).