Dr Renate Klein is a Swiss-Australian biologist and social scientist who has been a feminist women's health activist since the early 1980s. She was Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Deakin University, Melbourne until 2006. She is the (co) editor/(co) author of 19 books, among them Theories of Women's Studies, Test-Tube Women, Infertility, Radically Speaking and Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation. Since 1991, she is also Director and Publisher at Spinifex Press.