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  • Transcending Borders

    Abortion in the Past and Present

    Edited by Shannon Stettner, Katrina Ackerman, Kristin Burnett, Travis Hay ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This multidisciplinary volume investigates different abortion and reproductive practices across time, space, geography, national boundaries, and cultures. The authors specialize in the reproductive politics of Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, France, ‘German East Africa,’ Ireland, Japan, Sweden, South Africa, the United States, and Zanzibar, with historical focuses on the pre-modern era, nineteenth ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • No Turning Back

    The History of Feminism and the Future of Women

    by Estelle Freedman ...
    Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. A truly global movement, as vital and dynamic in the developing world as it is in the West, feminism has helped ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • An Act of Genocide

    Colonialism and the Sterilization of Aboriginal Women

    by Karen Stote ...
    During the 1900s eugenics gained favour as a means of controlling the birth rate among “undesirable” populations in Canada. Though many people were targeted, the coercive sterilization of one group has gone largely unnoticed. An Act of Genocide unpacks long-buried archival evidence to begin documenting the forced sterilization of Aboriginal women in Canada. Grounding this evidence within the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Second Sexism

    Discrimination Against Men and Boys

    by David Benatar ...
    Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to take it seriouslyThis book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who would deny that it exists. Challenging conventional ways of thinking, it examines controversial issues such as sex-based affirmative action, gender roles, and charges of anti-feminism. ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • A Sociology of Family Life

    Change and Diversity in Intimate Relations

    by Deborah Chambers, Pablo Gracia ...
    Family relations are undergoing dramatic changes globally and locally. At the same time, certain features of family life endure. This popular book, now in a fully updated second edition, presents a comprehensive assessment of recent research on 'family', parenting, childhood and interpersonal ties.A Sociology of Family Life queries assumptions about a disintegration of 'the family' by revealing a ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Conquest

    Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide

    by Andrea Smith ...
    In this revolutionary text, prominent Native American studies scholar and activist Andrea Smith reveals the connections between different forms of violence—perpetrated by the state and by society at large—and documents their impact on Native women. Beginning with the impact of the abuses inflicted on Native American children at state-sanctioned boarding schools from the 1880s to the 1980s, Smith ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Radical Reproductive Justice

    Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique

    Edited by Loretta Ross, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, Lynn Roberts, Pamela Bridgewater ...
    Expanding the social justice discourse surrounding "reproductive rights" to include issues of environmental justice, incarceration, poverty, disability, and more, this crucial anthology explores the practical applications for activist thought migrating from the community into the academy.Radical Reproductive Justice assembles two decades’ of work initiated by SisterSong Women of Color Health ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Divided

    Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare

    by Dr Annabel Sowemimo ...
    WINNER OF THE BREAD & ROSES PRIZE FOR RADICAL PUBLISHING 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2024A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOK OF 2023'Important and ambitious' Observer, Book of the Day'An illuminating and powerful intersectional a... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

    Edited by Alison Bashford, Philippa Levine ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • After Morgentaler

    The Politics of Abortion in Canada

    by Rachael Johnstone ...
    The landmark decision R. v. Morgentaler (1988) struck down Canada’s abortion law and is widely believed to have established a right to abortion, but its actual impact is much less decisive; and women’s access to abortion in Canada remains uneven and at risk of being curtailed. In After Morgentaler, Rachael Johnstone examines the state of abortion access in Canada today, maps its historical ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Death Talk, Second Edition

    The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

    by Margaret Somerville ...
    Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life and euthanasia? How do journalistic values and media ethics affect the public's perception of ... Read more

    $27.59 USD