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...

As a lesbian who has brought up children I want this book for lesbian and gay parents and their children, and as a counter to the prejudice and fear promoted by the anti-gay voices that get media attention. —Pat Rosier

Sixteen young people are interviewed about their experiences of growing up with lesbian and gay parents. As one young person relates: ‘We’re a real family with our two dads.’ ...

Imagine an unborn foetus having children. In a world where frozen embryo banks and test-tube babies are presented as the ‘norm’, the culling of immature eggs from a female foetus is no longer science fiction. How does this affect our concepts of parenting and mothering? What are the ethical and moral implications of research into human reproduction? Robyn Rowland argues that women have become...

A SPINIFEX FEMINIST CLASSIC

In this collection of essays, performance pieces, poetry and prose, mother as noun, appendage and agenda is mined for meaning in the contemporary world. Mothers are spectacular, for every child there is a mother even if unknown. Is she a bad mother, a good mother, a TV mother, a kitchen mother, an immortal mother, a devil mother, an immaculate mother? Is she the...