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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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Living Laboratories
Robyn Rowland

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...

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RU 486
Janice Raymond, Lynette Dumble, Renate Klein

What is RU 486?

Who is promoting the new "abortion pill"? And is it a miracle drug?

Whom does it serve best?

What is its history and adverse effects?

What is the role of prostaglandin? And what are its dangers?

What are the implications of chemical abortion for women's health? For existing abortion services?

What are the long-term ethical, political and social consequences?

What are the...

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Menopause Industry, The
Sandra Coney

Published in four countries and into several reprints, this book has been called ‘a must read’. The information in this book is important and Sandra Coney’s incisive critique of the use of HRT should have been listened to years ago. It is groundbreaking and gives details on the benefits and risks of medical intervention in ‘the mid-life woman’. Sandra Coney argues that healthy mid-life women...

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Valence

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Susan Hawthorne

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    in linguistics, the number of arguments
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Sheila Jeffreys

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“A rigorous, savvy contemporary intellectual history … Read this book.” – Andrea...


Bite Your Tongue

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Francesca Rendle-Short

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Finola Moorhead

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This quirky manifesto about writing was first published in 1983. Finola Moorhead, one of...


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