Women & Politics

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Bleed Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care ECW Press	Journalist Tracey Lindeman knows it all too well. Decades of suffering from endometriosis propelled the creation of BLEED — part memoir, part investigative journalism, and all …	Tracey Lindeman	322	2023	View
From Conclusion From: Stolen Motherhood View bar	The conclusion touches on the nature of the demand for surrogacy and argues that surrogacy should be banned internationally.	Maria De Koninck	13	2020	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Equality, Equity, and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women From: 1968 in Canada View University of Ottawa Press	In 1968, Canadian women addressed women’s equality in the spotlight of a royal commission’s public hearing process. Predominantly white, married women spoke truth to power in …	Jane Arscott	22	2021	$2.20 Add
From Gender Equity Policies From: Scandinavian Common Sense View Baraka Books	By definition, gender equity helps reduce social inequalities. Incontrovertibly women are enriched, both financially and as citizens, when they are included on an equal footing with men in all …	Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand	9	2015	$0.90 Add
From Introduction From: Stolen Motherhood View bar	The introduction looks at legality in Quebec and Canada and establishes some vocabulary definitions.	Maria De Koninck	24	2020	$2.40 Add
From Marx, Feminism, and the Construction of the Commons From: Patriarchy of the Wage View Between The Lines	This chapter asks: What tools, principles, and ideas can Marxism bring to feminist theory and politics in our time? Can we think today of a relation between Marxism and feminism other than the …	Silvia Federici	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From Origins and Development of Sexual Work in the United States and Britain From: Patriarchy of the Wage View Between The Lines	This chapter focuses on sexual work; it discusses history, sexuality, class, and gender/labour politics.	Silvia Federici	16	2021	$1.60 Add
From Revolution Begins at Home: Rethinking Marx, Reproduction, and the Class Struggle From: Patriarchy of the Wage View Between The Lines	This essay’s argument is divided in four parts. Part 1 examines the evidence and reasons for Marx’s undertheorization of “reproduction,” focusing on his reductive concept …	Silvia Federici	20	2021	$2.00 Add
Stolen Motherhood Surrogacy and Made-to-Order Children bar	Neither marginal nor secret, contracting surrogate mothers is growing rapidly and is regarded as socially progressive. Yet the “process” is vitiated from the get go, i.e., …	Maria De Koninck	194	2020	View
From Surrogacy’s Emergence, Development, and International Expansion From: Stolen Motherhood View bar	The author begins by examining the social, cultural, and economic factors that underpin surrogacy, claiming that it is essential to examine it in today’s context while identifying the …	Maria De Koninck	32	2020	$3.20 Add
From The Child at the Heart of Surrogacy From: Stolen Motherhood View bar	This chapter focuses on the children at the "heart" of surrogacy, highlighting these children’s wellbeing, future, and all other considerations, which the author argues are …	Maria De Koninck	23	2020	$2.30 Add
From The Construction of Domestic Work in Nineteenth-Century England and the Patriarchy of the Wage From: Patriarchy of the Wage View Between The Lines	This chapter examines the history of our current understanding of "domestic work/women’s labour" and the effects of this relatively recent construction on women.	Silvia Federici	12	2021	$1.20 Add
From The Pieces of the Puzzle From: Stolen Motherhood View bar	This chapter examines three dimensions of surrogacy more closely: "the health of mother and child, the use of anthropological knowledge in the debate surrounding it, and the illusion that …	Maria De Koninck	22	2020	$2.20 Add
From Être et Noir – Being and Blackness Memory and the Congress From: Fear of a Black Nation View Between The Lines	This chapter explores the experiences of Black individuals in 1960s Montreal, with a focus on the Congress of Black Writers. The author examines the role of gender and the lack of female …		39	2023	$3.90 Add
From Wanting a Child versus Human Dignity From: Stolen Motherhood View bar	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
From Women’s Issues From: Stolen Motherhood View bar	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