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Defiant Birth
Melinda Tankard Reist (ed.)
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The women in this book may be among the last to have babies without the medical stamp of approval.

Today's society demands physical perfection from all and regards medical and scientific technologies as saviours to be embraced whatever the cost. To have a child who has been diagnosed with a disability is deemed not just unnecessary, but careless and even immoral.

Defiant Birth tells...


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Exploitation of a Desire
Renate Klein

Being accepted on the [IVF] programme raised wild hopes without any realistic information to back them up. Looking back I cannot say why I did not see through it.

IVF: the miracle technology, or an experimental procedure that violates women? In this exploratory study Renate Klein asks important questions of women who have been on the IVF programmes: Do women contemplating IVF know its...



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Fear Of Food
Carol Bacchi
An illuminating story of motherhood, Fear of Food is Carol Bacchi's account of the first two years of her son's life. She battles his rejection of food, encounters dismissive health professionals, and struggles with sleep deprivation and the uncertainties of doing it alone. Provocative and deeply personal, Fear of Food is a compelling read.


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Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Fiona Place
I am seen by many as a danger. As having failed to understand the new rules, the new paradigm of successful motherhood.

A memoir and an examination of the politics of disability. Fiona Place describes the pressure from medical institutions to undergo screening during pregnancy and the traumatic nature and assumptions that a child with Trisomy 21 should not live, even though people with Down...


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RU 486
Janice Raymond, Lynette Dumble, Renate Klein
An award-winner when first published, this book has become a classic text for health activists and feminists interested in the complexities of how drugs are developed, marketed and sold to women around the world. In this book the authors review the unusual history of the French abortion pill, RU 486 (mifepristone). They scrutinize the science and politics from inception through to its use on...


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