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  • Mobility in North American Surrogacy

    A Fertile Global Industry

    by Amy Speier ...
    The United States is a bastion of commercial surrogacy. Intended parents from all over the globe travel to the United States seeking to build a family. However, they must navigate a complicated, convoluted industry that consists of hundreds of fertility clinics, surrogacy, and egg donor agencies, as well as new forms of business that have appeared to ease the efficiency of a long, drawn-out ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Dialectic of Digital Culture

    by David Arditi, Jennifer Miller, Brian Connor, Lisa Daily, Long Doan, Robert Gehl, Nancy Hanrahan, Ariella Horwitz, Douglas Kellner0, Timothy Morris1, Amy Speier2, Timothy Luke3, Michael Palm4 ...
    This edited collection analyzes the role of digital technology in contemporary society dialectically. While many authors, journalists, and commentators have argued that the internet and digital technologies will bring us democracy, equality, and freedom, digital culture often results in loss of privacy, misinformation, and exploitation. This collection challenges celebratory readings of digital ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Fertility Holidays

    IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness

    by Amy Speier ...
    A critical analysis of white, working class North Americans’ motivations and experiences when traveling to Central Europe for donor egg IVFEach year, more and more Americans travel out of the country seeking low cost medical treatments abroad, including fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). As the lower middle classes of the United States have been priced out of an expensive ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • The Genetic Function and Nature of LIterature

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  • Misconceptions

    Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood

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    In Misconceptions, bestselling author Naomi Wolf she demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence, ultrasounds tested her commitment to abortion rights, and the keepers of the OB/GYN establishment lacked compassion. The weeks after her first daughter’s birth taught ... Read more

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  • Push Back

    Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting

    by Amy Tuteur, M.D. ...
    A Harvard-trained obstetrician-gynecologist, prominent blogger, and author of the classic How Your Baby Is Born delivers a timely, important, and sure to be headline-making expose that shines a light on the natural parenting movement and the multimillion-dollar industry behind it.The natural parenting movement praises the virtues of birth without medical interference, staunchly advocates ... Read more

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  • Beyond Genetics

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    by Glenn McGee ...
    Genetic science is about to radically alter our lives. Sooner than you can imagine, human beings will be capable of diagnosing their own illnesses, designating the sex of their children, even designing the food they eat -- all as easily as using a cell phone. Now is the time for every one of us to take control of our DNA, and one man is uniquely qualified to show us how: Glenn McGee, bioethicist ... Read more

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  • Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation

    Second Edition

    by Evelina Weidman Weidman Sterling, Ellen Sarasohn Glazer ...
    Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation is a helpful, authoritative guide to negotiating the complex and emotive issues that arise for those considering whether or not to pursue egg donation. It presents information clearly and with compassion, exploring the practical, financial, logistical, social and ethical questions that commonly arise. This fully updated second edition also includes recent ... Read more

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  • Unlatched

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    From an environmental journalist and mother of two young breast-fed children comes this searing, insightful look into the breastfeeding controversy and puts “common knowledge” about this most natural of processes to the test by breaking down the complex cultural, corporate, political, and technological factors that have transformed the way people think about breastfeeding and the human experience ... Read more

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  • Finding Our Families

    A First-of-Its-Kind Book for Donor-Conceived People and Their Families

    by Wendy Kramer, Naomi Cahn ...
    The first comprehensive book that offers invaluable step-by-step advice for families with donor-conceived children.Wendy Kramer, founder and director of the Donor Sibling Registry, and Naomi Cahn, family and reproductive law professor, have compiled a comprehensive and thorough guide for the growing community of families with donor-conceived children. Kramer and Cahn believe that all donor ... Read more

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  • Birth Work as Care Work

    Stories from Activist Birth Communities

    by Alana Apfel, Victoria Law ...
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    Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities. The personal has once more become political, and birth workers, supporters, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity.The author, herself a scholar and birth justice organizer, provides a unique platform to explore the ... Read more

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