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“elisabeth badinter”

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  • Conflict

    How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

    by Elisabeth Badinter ...
    In this explosive new book, acclaimed French author Elisabeth Badinter attacks a most unlikely force undermining women’s equality: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is “natural.” Attachment parenting, co-sleeping and on-demand breastfeeding—these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have succeeded in tethering women to the home and family to an extent not seen since the 1950s. The taboos ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

    Rethinking, Remaking, and Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism

    by Silvia Federici ...
    Series series Kairos
    More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements—all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why Have Children?

    The Ethical Debate

    by Christine Overall ...
    Series series Basic Bioethics
    A wide-ranging exploration of whether or not choosing to procreate can be morally justified—and if so, how.In contemporary Western society, people are more often called upon to justify the choice not to have children than they are to supply reasons for having them. In this book, Christine Overall maintains that the burden of proof should be reversed: that the choice to have children calls for more ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Ethical Imagination

    by Margaret Somerville ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and our world, and how we find meaning in life. How we can find a shared ethics for an interdependent world? In her 2006 CBC Massey Lectures, ethicist and McGill University professor Margaret Somerville ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bird on an Ethics Wire

    Battles about Values in the Culture Wars

    by Margaret Somerville ...
    Our physical ecosystem is not indestructible and we have obligations to hold it in trust for future generations. The same is true of our metaphysical ecosystem - the values, principles, attitudes, beliefs, and shared stories on which we have founded our society. In Bird on an Ethics Wire, Margaret Somerville explores the values needed to maintain a world that reasonable people would want to live ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Trust Women

    A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice

    by Rebecca Todd Peters ...
    As women’s reproductive rights are increasingly under attack, a minister and ethicist weighs in on the abortion debate—offering a stirring argument that “the best arbiter of a woman’s reproductive destiny is herself” (Cecile Richards, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America)Here’s a fact that we often ignore: unplanned pregnancy and abortion are a normal part of women’s ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Case against Perfection

    Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    “Sandel explores a paramount question of our era: how to extend the power and promise of biomedical science to overcome debility without compromising our humanity. His arguments are acute and penetrating, melding sound logic with compassion.”—Jerome Groopman, author of How Doctors ThinkBreakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People

    by John Harris ...
    Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life--to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup--have been widely rejected as unethical and undesirable and have often met with extreme hostility. But in Enhancing Evolution leading bioethicist John Harris dismantles objections to genetic engineering stem-cell research designer babies ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • An Anthropology of Biomedicine

    by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Margaret M. Lock ...
    An Anthropology of Biomedicine is an exciting new introduction to biomedicine and its global implications. Focusing on the ways in which the application of biomedical technologies bring about radical changes to societies at large, cultural anthropologist Margaret Lock and her co-author physician and medical anthropologist Vinh-Kim Nguyen develop and integrate the thesis that the human body in ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Abortion

    a personal story, a political choice

    by Pauline Harmange ...
    Translated by Caitlin O’Neil ...
    From the author of I Hate Men, a personal and political reflection on abortion rights.Discussion about abortion and associated rights are often limited to either ‘anti-abortion’ or ‘pro-choice’, the latter of which focuses on the importance of having the right to choose, rather than on what that right means for real people.In this timely essay, Pauline Harmange provides an intimate, detailed ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

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  • Not an Easy Choice

    A Feminist Re-examines Abortion

    by Kathleen McDonnell ...
    Kathleen McDonnell unravels the ethical debates surrounding the issue, examines the constituency and strategy of the anti-choice movement and evaluates the arguments regarding men's rights in abortion decisions in the context of rapidly changing reproduct ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Understanding Abortion

    From Mixed Feelings to Rational Thought

    by Stephen D. Schwarz ...
    Books on abortion (other than collections of readings) typically express and defend a particular position. This book gives both sides, as evenly and objectively as possible; it gets to the heart of each position, the core idea which animates it. It then leaves the reader to make up his or her own mind. It is an introduction to the issue, not only to the basic positions on the issue. Despite being ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD