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  • Title IX and the Protection of Pregnant and Parenting College Students

    Realities and Challenges

    by Catherine L. Riley, Alexis Hutchinson, Carley Dix ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    This book explores the discrepancies among what protections Title IX provides to pregnant and parenting students, what colleges communicate, and what pregnant and parenting students actually experience. To actually protect pregnant and parenting students, the authors argue that a school must provide multifaceted support that is effectively communicated to an entire campus community, including ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • The Transgender Child

    A Handbook for Families and Professionals

    by Stephanie Brill, Rachel Pepper ...
    This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the authors cover gender variance from birth through college. What do you do when your toddler daughter’s first sentence is that she’s a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Hormone Myth

    How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down

    by Robyn Stein DeLuca, PhD ...
    **“**The Hormone Myth is a bracing, accurate breath of fresh air. It turns conventional wisdom about hormones on its head, and provides a far more liberating view of women’s health than what we’ve all been taught.”—Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom“Is it that time of month?”“Is your biological clock ticking?”"You're so emotional lately—are you g... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • In the Kingdom of the Sick

    A Social History of Chronic Illness in America

    by Laurie Edwards ...
    Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live with chronic illness, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all health care dollars, and untold ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • 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

    $39.99 CAD

  • Is Breast Best?

    Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood

    by Joan B. Wolf ...
    Since the invention of dextri-maltose and the subsequent rise of Similac in the early twentieth century, parents with access to clean drinking water have had a safe alternative to breast-milk. Use of formula spiked between the 1950s and 1970s, with some reports showing that nearly 75 percent of the population relied on commercial formula to at least supplement a breastfeeding routine. So how is it ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Narrative Ethics in Public Health: The Value of Stories

    Edited by Drue H. Barrett, Leonard W. Ortmann, Stephanie A. Larson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This Open Access book illustrates the power of stories to illuminate ethical concerns that arise in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for public health practitioners to develop effective and ethical public health interventions. Because it relies on the natural and universal appeal of stories, the book also serves to ... Read more

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  • Helping Your Transgender Teen, 2nd Edition

    A Guide for Parents

    by Irwin Krieger ...
    Going through puberty and adolescence presents unwelcome changes for many transgender youth, and this book provides advice to parents of transgender teens to help them understand what their child is experiencing and feeling during this challenging time.Addressing common fears and concerns that parents of transgender teens share, the book guides them through steps they can take with their child, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • G is for Genes

    The Impact of Genetics on Education and Achievement

    by Kathryn Asbury, Robert Plomin ...
    Series Book 24 - Understanding Children's Worlds
    G is for Genes shows how a dialogue between geneticists and educationalists can have beneficial results for the education of all children—and can also benefit schools, teachers, and society at large.Draws on behavioral genetic research from around the world, including the UK-based Twins’ Early Development Study (TEDS), one of the largest twin studies in the worldOffers a unique viewpoint by ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Shortchanged

    Height Discrimination and Strategies for Social Change

    by Tanya S Osensky ...
    Would you like to be taller? Many people—except very tall people—would likely answer yes. Why should this be the case, when height has nothing to do with intelligence, talent, fortitude, compassion, or indeed any of the factors that make us human? In her thoughtful and provocative book, Tanya S Osensky examines “heightism”: the widely held and mostly unconscious notion that taller is better. She ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality

    Healthcare, Social Policy, and Work Perspectives

    Edited by Marc Grau Grau, Mireia las Heras Maestro, Hannah Riley Bowles ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This aim of this open access book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating perspective from three sectors—Health, Social Policy, and Work in Organizations—the book offers a novel perspective on the benefits of engaged fatherhood for men, for families, and for gender equality. The chapters are crafted to engaged broad audiences, ... Read more

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  • Evolution and Gender

    Why It Matters for Contemporary Life

    by Rosemary Hopcroft ...
    Offering new research and analysis on the relation between gender and evolution, this book explains conflict between the sexes and the frequent emergence and stubborn continuation of patriarchal regimes that serve to control the behavior of women in societies around the world, both past and present. Women and men are different, on average. But that does not mean they are unequal. Indeed, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD