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  • A Tale of Two Surrogates

    A Graphic Narrative on Assisted Reproduction

    Series series Graphic Medicine
    A Tale of Two Surrogates explores the complicated emotional, medical, legal, and ethical issues surrounding assisted reproduction. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research conducted by a sociologist and an anthropologist, this book presents, in an accessible graphic novel format, the intertwined stories of two fictional women who decide to become gestational surrogates. It immerses the ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Birthing a Mother

    The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self

    by Elly Teman ...
    Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Push Back

    Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting

    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

    $8.99 USD

  • You or Someone You Love

    Reflections from an Abortion Doula

    **Named an ALA 2024 Feminist Rise Book Project Winner * Glamour Best Nonfiction Book of 2023 * theSkimm Favorite Book of Summer 2023 * NPR Science Friday Best Science Book of Summer 2023An eye-opening, transformative, and actionable journey through radical and compassionate community abortion care and support work: what it looks like, how each and every one of us can practice and incorporate it ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?

    Human cloning raises the most profound questions about human nature, our faith in ourselves, and our ability to make decisions that could significantly alter the character of humanity. In this exciting and accessible book, Gregory Pence offers a candid and sometimes humorous look at the arguments for and against human cloning. Originating a human being by cloning, Pence boldly argues, should not ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Like a Mother

    A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

    by Angela Garbes ...
    A candid, feminist, and personal deep dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and motherhoodLike most first-time mothers, Angela Garbes was filled with questions when she became pregnant. What exactly is a placenta and how does it function? How does a body go into labor? Why is breast best? Is wine totally off-limits? But as she soon discovered, it’s not easy to find satisfying answers. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Regretting Motherhood

    A Study

    by Orna Donath ...
    A provocative and deeply important study of women’s lives, women’s choices—and an ‘unspoken taboo’—that questions the societal pressures forcing women into motherhoodWomen who opt not to be mothers are frequently warned that they will regret their decision later in life, yet we rarely talk about the possibility that the opposite might also be true—that women who have children might regret it. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In-Between Days

    A Memoir About Living with Cancer

    by Teva Harrison ...
    2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner2017 Joe Shuster Award NomineeTeva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love Thy Body

    Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality

    by Nancy Pearcey ...
    Why the call to Love Thy Body? To counter a pervasive hostility toward the body and biology that drives today's headline stories:● Transgenderism: Activists detach gender from biology. Kids down to kindergarten are being taught their body is irrelevant to their authentic self. Is this affirming--or does it demean the body?● Homosexuality: Advocates disconnect sexuality from biological identity as ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Matrescence

    On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

    by Lucy Jones ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION • From the acclaimed author of Losing Eden (“Powerful, beautifully written”—Anthony Doerr) an important, moving, passionate and passionately written inquiry—personal and scientific—into what happens—mentally, spiritually, physically, during the process of becoming a mother, from pregnancy and childbirth to early motherhood and what this profound ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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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  • Misconception

    One Couple's Journey from Embryo Mix-Up to Miracle Baby

    In February of 2009, Shannon and Paul Morell were especially eager to bring a new life into the world. After years of infertility and miscarriages they had, in 2006, finally scrimped and saved enough to have in vitro fertilization. The result? Two dear daughters had been born, and six precious embryos had been frozen.They counted the days until they could transfer the six remaining embryos. Until ... Read more

    $12.99 USD