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“elisabeth badinter”

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  • The Conflict

    How Overzealous Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

    by Elisabeth Badinter ...
    In the pathbreaking tradition of Backlash and The Time Bind, The Conflict, a #1 European bestseller, identifies a surprising setback to women's freedom: progressive modern motherhoodElisabeth Badinter has for decades been in the vanguard of the European fight for women's equality. Now, in an explosive new book, she points her finger at a most unlikely force undermining the status of women: liberal ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • The Genetic Function and Nature of LIterature

    by R. D. Hood ...
    Literature is found in many primitive and modern cultures, and it does have group survival advantages, and so, according to sociobiological theory, the evidence is strong that literature has a genetic base. ... Read more

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  • Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

    Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism

    by Silvia Federici ...
    Series series Kairos
    More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements—all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist ... Read more

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  • Why Have Children?

    The Ethical Debate

    by Christine Overall ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified—and if so, how.In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Vaccine Hesitancy

    Public Trust, Expertise, and the War on Science

    by Maya Goldenberg ...
    Winner, 2022 PSA Women's Caucus Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science AwardThe public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. The controversy over childhood immunization intensified in 1998, when Dr. Andrew Wakefield linked the MMR vaccine to autism. Although Wakefield’s findings were later ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Bird on an Ethics Wire

    Battles about Values in the Culture Wars

    by Margaret Somerville ...
    Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret Somerville explores the values needed to maintain a world that reasonable people would want to live ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Trust Women

    A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice

    by Rebecca Todd Peters ...
    As women’s reproductive rights are increasingly under attack, a minister and ethicist weighs in on the abortion debate—offering a stirring argument that “the best arbiter of a woman’s reproductive destiny is herself” (Cecile Richards, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America)Here’s a fact that we often ignore: unplanned pregnancy and abortion are a normal part of women’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People

    by John Harris ...
    Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life--to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup--have been widely rejected as unethical and undesirable and have often met with extreme hostility. But in Enhancing Evolution leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering stem-cell research designer babies ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... Read more

    $68.50 USD

  • The Case against Perfection

    Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    “Sandel explores a paramount question of our era: how to extend the power and promise of biomedical science to overcome debility without compromising our humanity. His arguments are acute and penetrating, melding sound logic with compassion.”—Jerome Groopman, author of How Doctors ThinkBreakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Abortion

    a personal story, a political choice

    by Pauline Harmange ...
    Translated by Caitlin O’Neil ...
    From the author of I Hate Men, a personal and political reflection on abortion rights.Discussion about abortion and associated rights are often limited to either ‘anti-abortion’ or ‘pro-choice’, the latter of which focuses on the importance of having the right to choose, rather than on what that right means for real people.In this timely essay, Pauline Harmange provides an intimate, detailed ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Not an Easy Choice

    A Feminist Re-examines Abortion

    by Kathleen McDonnell ...
    Kathleen McDonnell unravels the ethical debates surrounding the issue, examines the constituency and strategy of the anti-choice movement and evaluates the arguments regarding men's rights in abortion decisions in the context of rapidly changing reproduct ... Read more

    $8.69 USD