Daniela Danna is a sociologist, researcher and lecturer, at the University of Milan. She is the author of various books and articles mainly on gender issues (violence against women, prostitution policy, GLBT issues, population and procreation). Her articles and book chapters have appeared in different languages, while her only book in English has just come out: Contract Children. Questioning surrogacy (Ibidem 2015). A translation of Prostitution and Public Life in four European Capitals is on the web, and another – Gender explained to an amoeba – is in progress). In 2010 she was a founding editor of XXD – Rivista di varia donnità, an Italian feminist web magazine, also readable on her website www.danieladanna.it.