Judith Richter examines the research into a new class of birth control methods in which the body is challenged by immuno-contraceptives or anti-fertility ‘vaccines’. A model book that challenges unorthodox and dangerous research on women’s bodies and on their lives. A book that has wrought changes to research and stopped further development of medicines that create harm. Recommended for...

Nawal El Saadawi, internationally known for her novels, short stories and writings on women, now writes about her life, about the reactions in the Arab world to her writings on sex; about her imprisonment under Sadat and her struggles against oppression and discrimination. Beginning her working life as a rural doctor, she goes on to set up women’s organisations and publish magazines later...

A scathing analysis of high-tech biomedical reproductive techniques. Women as Wombs provides groundbreaking insights into the debate over reproductive technology and its ethical, legal, and political implications. Raymond asserts that far from being liberatory issues of ‘choice’, these techniques – including in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and sex selection – are a threat to women’s basic...

Zest for Life draws on lesbians’ experiences of menopause to highlight how lesbians, particularly at midlife, are invisibilised in society at large. Many writers and researchers have critically analysed the medical construction of menopause, yet even they fail to ask whether the issues are the same for lesbians. Zest for Life includes the voices of lesbians who tell us that despite lesbian...