Reproductive Rights
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From ![]() These Are My ChildrenFrom: The M Word |
Christa Couture reflects on proof of motherhood, the loss of a child, mourning, bereavement, guilt, and a message for her ‘little ones.’ | Christa Couture | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() ThreeFrom: The Seed |
This chapter begins with the historical beginnings of the reproductive rights movement and how these ideas have changed over time. Kimball discusses reproductive rights and feminism in relation … | Alexandra Kimball | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() Truth, Dare, Double DareFrom: The M Word |
Heather Birrell reflects on motherhood as a writer, the fears of new mothers, selfishness, unexpected pregnancy, abortion, and more. | Heather Birrell | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Twin SelvesFrom: The M Word |
Julie Booker reflects on her life and journey to motherhood. Topics discussed include career, marriage, childlessness, grief, multiples, and motherhood after forty. | Julie Booker | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() TwoFrom: The Seed |
This chapter starts with a discussion of women’s progress in society as it relates to the topic of infertility. She discusses the history of film and pop culture references regarding … | Alexandra Kimball | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Typical GirlsIntersections From: Bleed |
Lindeman examines how the various intersecting characteristics of a patient’s identity will directly inform their ability to be accurately diagnosed and receive proper medical care. She … | Tracey Lindeman | 32 | 2023 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() Unwed, Not DeadFrom: The M Word |
Myrl Coulter reflects on her youth in 1967 Winnipeg, teen pregnancy, unmarried mothers, adoption, boarding homes for unwed mothers, music, the Canadian Criminal Code, and more. | Myrl Coulter | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Wanting a Child versus Human DignityFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
The author critiques the for-profit contract based model of surrogacy and looks at the implications of this model. She touches on concepts of medical ethics, individualism, social infertility, … | Maria De Koninck | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! We’re Desperateto breed or not to breed? From: Bleed |
In this chapter, Lindeman examines how reproductive health is impacted by the financially lucrative pharmaceutical industry. She recounts the non-consensual drug trials, mass-sterilizations, and … | Tracey Lindeman | 44 | 2023 | $4.40 Add |
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From ![]() What Can’t Be Packed AwayFrom: The M Word |
Marita Dachsel reflects on moving, death, SIDS, superstition, names, nostalgia, child safety and freedom. | Marita Dachsel | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! What Do I Get?navigating the healthcare minefield From: Bleed |
In this chapter, Lindeman examines reproductive rights in the context of hysterectomies. She describes her own personal experience attempting to obtain a hysterectomy, the dismissal of female … | Tracey Lindeman | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Whose Child Is This?“Surrogacy,” Authority, and Responsibility From: Surrogacy in Canada |
In Chapter 1, Christine Overall, while accepting that the practice of surrogacy may be here to stay, considers the troubling moral issues that arise with respect to women who act as surrogates … | Christine Overall | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() “Why We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know” About Canada’s Surrogacy Practices and OutcomesFrom: Surrogacy in Canada |
We know very little about the lived experiences of women who act as surrogates, the intended parents, and the children conceived as a result of surrogacy arrangements. Pamela M White, in Chapter … | Pamela M White | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() WickedFrom: The M Word |
Susuan Olding reflects on meeting her stepdaughter, the experiences of stepmothers, and the relationship between the two of them. Includes elements of fairytales interspersed throughout. | Susan Olding | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() With Philosophy, Psychology, and Terror: Transforming Bodies into Labor Power |
In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici discusses the effects of the capitalist system on the conception of the body. She discusses how capitalist systems reduce the body to a base unit … | Silvia Federici | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Women’s IssuesFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
This chapter looks at the evolution of the concept/experience of motherhood, and the author asserts that society is increasingly viewing pregnancy and childbirth from a utilitarian perspective, … | Maria De Koninck | 33 | 2020 | $3.30 Add |









