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  • The Rhetoric of Pregnancy

    by Marika Seigel ...
    It is a truth widely acknowledged that if you're pregnant and can afford one, you're going to pick up a pregnancy manual. From What to Expect When You're Expecting to Pregnancy for Dummies, these guides act as portable mentors for women who want advice on how to navigate each stage of pregnancy. Yet few women consider the effect of these manuals—how they propel their readers into a particular ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Expecting

    A Brief History of Pregnancy Advice

    by Marika Seigel ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    As long as there have been pregnancies, there have been suggestions for how best to bring a child into the world: from tips for homeopathic care and natural childbirth to the circulation of old wives’ tales, those who deliver advice to pregnant women are often influenced as much by their own agendas as what is best, or most comfortable, for a new mother. In Expecting, Marika Seigel, author of The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Give Birth Like a Feminist

    Your body. Your baby. Your choices.

    by Milli Hill ...
    As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent’s 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parentsBirth is a feminist issue. It’s the feminist issue nobody’s talking about.For too long women have been told, ‘a healthy baby is all that matters’. This book dares to say women matter too.Finally blasting the feminist spotlight into the labour ward, Milli Hill enc... ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Vaccination Picture

    by Timothy Caulfield ...
    Few topics in health policy have generated as much debate—and frustration—among public health experts as the issue of vaccine safety. Misinformation around the science of vaccination continues to spread, and too often the media fails to report bad science for what it is.Using science-informed analysis alongside original art and powerful essays, health science leader Timothy Caulfield debunks the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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 USD

  • From Silence to Voice

    What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public

    by Bernice Buresh, Suzanne Gordon ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    **This is an invaluable book for all nurses, especially those who are proud of being nurses and who have always wanted to make others understand our passion.**â• Nursing StandardFor more than a decade, From Silence to Voice has been providing nurses with communication tools they can use to win the resources and respect they deserve. Now, in a timely third edition, authors Bernice Buresh and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Push Back

    Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting

    by Amy Tuteur, M.D. ...
    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

  • Them Before Us

    Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement

    by Katy Faust, Stacy Manning, Robert George ...
    Them Before Us has flipped the script on adult-centric attitudes toward marriage, parenthood, and reproductive technologies by framing these issues around a child’s right to be raised by both their mother and father. Set against a backdrop of sound research, the compelling stories throughout each chapter confirm that a child’s mental, physical, and emotional well-being depends on being loved by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • New Handbook for a Post-Roe America

    The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support

    by Robin Marty ...
    A completely new edition of Robin Marty's bestselling manual on what to do now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the health care you need. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides readers through various worst-case ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation

    Second Edition

    by Evelina Weidman Weidman Sterling, Ellen Sarasohn Glazer ...
    Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation is a helpful, authoritative guide to negotiating the complex and emotive issues that arise for those considering whether or not to pursue egg donation. It presents information clearly and with compassion, exploring the practical, financial, logistical, social and ethical questions that commonly arise. This fully updated second edition also includes recent ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Socially Responsible Organization

    Lessons from COVID

    by Ian I. Mitroff ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Business
    This book explores the nature of the socially responsible organization, specifically the role of crisis management in creating a socially responsible organization. It applies the Myers-Briggs Personality Typology (MBPTI) and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Framework to issues such as responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, regulation of tech companies, and infrastructure. Dr. Mitroff lists the major ... Read more

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  • Xenofeminism

    by Helen Hester ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in a world being transformed by automation, globalization and the digital revolution?These questions are addressed in this bold new book by Helen Hester, a founding member of the 'Laboria Cuboniks' collective that developed the ... Read more

    $10.00 USD