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  • Radical Reckonings

    Survival in Patriarchy

    by Renate Klein ...
    What happens when an old radical lesbian feminist has an idea of publishing a collection of her papers? She looks at her writings and despairs. She has written too much. The idea gets shelved. Fifteen years later, she revisits the project. But it is worse now because she has written more … But being stared down by her publisher she gets a grip and (painfully) pares down her oeuvre to a manageable ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surrogacy

    A Human Rights Violation

    by Renate Klein ...
    Series series Spinifex Shorts
    Pared down to cold hard facts, surrogacy is the commissioning/buying/ renting of a woman into whose womb an embryo is inserted and who thus becomes a 'breeder' for a third party.Surrogacy is heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry which seeks new markets for women over 40, and gay men who believe they have a 'right' to their own children and 'family foundation'. Pro-surrogacy groups in ... Read more

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  • Surrogacy

    A Human Rights Violation

    by Renate Klein ...
    Series series Spinifex Shorts
    Surrogacy is heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry which seeks new markets for women over 40, and gay men who believe they have a 'right' to their own children and 'family foundation'. Pro-surrogacy groups in rich countries such as Australia and Western Europe lobby for the shift to commercial surrogacy. Their capitalist neo-liberal argument is that a well-regulated fertility industry ... Read more

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  • Responding to Intimate Violence against Women

    The Role of Informal Networks

    by Renate Klein ...
    Series series Advances in Personal Relationships
    Family members, friends, coworkers and neighbors are often the first to know that a woman has been abused by an intimate male partner. What is the proper course of action for those with knowledge of abuse? Using a wide range of empirical data from international sources, Renate Klein documents informal third parties as the first port of call, sources of support and interference, and gatekeepers to ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Framing Sexual and Domestic Violence through Language

    by Renate Klein ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    With examples from throughout Europe and the United States, the contributors to this volume explore how gender violence is framed through language and what this means for research and policy. Language shapes responses to abuse and approaches to perpetrators and interfaces with national debates about gender, violence, and social change. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • RU486

    Misconceptions, Myths and Morals

    A classic text for health activists and feminists interested in the complexities of how drugs are developed, marketed, and sold to women around the world, this book reviews the unusual history of the French abortion pill RU-486. Critical of the positive claims made for RU-486, it argues that its promotion is filled with myths and misconceptions. Scrutinizing the science and politics behind RU-486, ... Read more

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  • Man-Made Women

    How New Reproductive Technologies Affect Women

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women in Society
    In the early 1980s the new reproductive technologies available supposedly offered infertile women a chance to have children. However, there was growing concern that the determination of scientists to dominate nature, their disregard for women’s well-being, and the financial gains to be made from these technologies would together result in the increased modification of all women’s lives and the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Test-Tube Women

    What Future for Motherhood?

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women in Society
    Originally published in 1984, when new reproductive technologies were just beginning to become part of the public discussion, this edition was published with a new preface in 1989. The Editors wanted to look carefully at how much real choice reproductive technologies offered to women. Genetic engineering, sperm banks, test tube fertilization, sex selection, surrogate mothering, experimentation in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Infertility

    Women Speak Out About Their Experiences of Reproductive Medicine

    Edited by Renate D. Klein ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women in Society
    Originally published in 1989, Infertility looks at how fertility treatments fail women. At the time there was disturbing evidence of medical malpractice and invasive technologies which violated women’s bodies and took a heavy toll on their lives.Here for the first time, women – from all over the world – tell their own stories about: the pain and stigma of infertility; never-ending cycles of drugs ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • CyberFeminism

    Connectivity, Critique and Creativity

    Edited by Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein ...
    An international anthology by feminists working in the fields of electronic publishing, activism, data delivery, multimedia games production, educational multimedia, the virtual campus and virtual reality creation, program development and electronic product, as well as those developing critiques of electronic culture, this collection explores what the possibilities are for feminists and for ... Read more

    $13.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Broken Bonds

    Surrogate Mothers Speak Out

    Series series
    Thousands of people obtain babies through surrogacy arrangements. The general public is compassionate to their plight and supportive of their 'right' to a baby. But who are the nameless women who give birth to these babies? In this book, strong and courageous women from the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, and Russia share their stories of becoming 'surrogate' mothers only to be deceived by 'baby ... Read more

    $14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not Dead Yet

    Feminism, Passion and Women's Liberation

    Edited by Renate Klein, Susan Hawthorne ...
    What was it like to participate in the Women's Liberation Movement? What made millions of women step forward from the 1960s onwards and join it in different ways? Many of the fifty women in this book were there. They describe how they have contributed in multitudinous ways across politics, the arts, health, education, environmentalism, economics and science and created wonderfully subversive ... Read more

    $24.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus