Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory

Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9780801457838
ISBN-13 : 0801457831
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory by : Emily Monosson

Download or read book Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory written by Emily Monosson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About half of the undergraduate and roughly 40 percent of graduate degree recipients in science and engineering are women. As increasing numbers of these women pursue research careers in science, many who choose to have children discover the unique difficulties of balancing a professional life in these highly competitive (and often male-dominated) fields with the demands of motherhood. Although this issue directly affects the career advancement of women scientists, it is rarely discussed as a professional concern, leaving individuals to face the dilemma on their own. To address this obvious but unacknowledged crisis—the elephant in the laboratory, according to one scientist—Emily Monosson, an independent toxicologist, has brought together 34 women scientists from overlapping generations and several fields of research—including physics, chemistry, geography, paleontology, and ecology, among others—to share their experiences. From women who began their careers in the 1970s and brought their newborns to work, breastfeeding them under ponchos, to graduate students today, the authors of the candid essays written for this groundbreaking volume reveal a range of career choices: the authors work part-time and full-time; they opt out and then opt back in; they become entrepreneurs and job share; they teach high school and have achieved tenure. The personal stories that comprise Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory not only show the many ways in which women can successfully combine motherhood and a career in science but also address and redefine what it means to be a successful scientist. These valuable narratives encourage institutions of higher education and scientific research to accommodate the needs of scientists who decide to have children.

The Unfinished Revolution

The Unfinished Revolution
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9780199783328
ISBN-13 : 0199783322
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Unfinished Revolution by : Kathleen Gerson

Download or read book The Unfinished Revolution written by Kathleen Gerson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast changes in family life have often been blamed for declining morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering research with the children of the gender revolution, Kathleen Gerson reveals that it is not a lack of family values, but rigid social and economic forces that make it difficult to live out those values. The Unfinished Revolution makes clear recommendations for a new flexibility at work and at home that benefits families, encourages a thriving economy, and helps women and men integrate love and work.

Babies for Sale?

Babies for Sale?
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Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9781783607044
ISBN-13 : 1783607041
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Babies for Sale? by : Miranda Davies

Download or read book Babies for Sale? written by Miranda Davies and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transnational surrogacy – the creation of babies across borders – has become big business. Globalization, reproductive technologies, new family formations and rising infertility are combining to produce a 'quiet revolution' in social and medical ethics and the nature of parenthood. Whereas much of the current scholarship has focused on the US and India, this groundbreaking anthology offers a far wider perspective. Featuring contributions from over thirty activists and scholars from a range of countries and disciplines, this collection offers the first genuinely international study of transnational surrogacy. Its innovative bottom-up approach, rooted in feminist perspectives, gives due prominence to the voices of those most affected by the global surrogacy chain, namely the surrogate mothers, donors, prospective parents and the children themselves. Through case studies ranging from Israel to Mexico, the book outlines the forces that are driving the growth of transnational surrogacy, as well as its implications for feminism, human rights, motherhood and masculinity.

Young Gums: Baby Food with Attitude

Young Gums: Baby Food with Attitude
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781473554900
ISBN-13 : 147355490X
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Young Gums: Baby Food with Attitude by : Beth Bentley

Download or read book Young Gums: Baby Food with Attitude written by Beth Bentley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One family, one meal. Super-easy, super-tasty weaning recipes you’ll love to eat yourself. ‘a breath of fresh air for new parents’ - Skye Gyngell Award-winning food blogger Beth Bentley makes weaning fun and simple with a combination of baby-led and spoon-fed nutritious, wholesome recipes that are packed full of flavour. Say goodbye to fruit-sweetened, unidentifiable purees and instead make real, delicious food that the whole family can enjoy. Focusing on just a few great ingredients, clever flavour combinations and easy cooking methods, this is food that can be scaled up easily so that the family is able to enjoy the one meal – together; a practice that will help your baby develop good eating and social habits. And even better, the majority can be made using just one hand and just one pan! Including recipes such as Rainbow Ragu, Sweet Potato Cookies, Baby Burrito Bowls and No-roast Chicken Pot Roast, this step-by-step guide will take you from the daunting first stages of weaning right up to one year, with confidence and excitement. Including over 60 meals for both baby and mum, here are healthy, flavoursome recipes for a happy baby.

The Crying Book

The Crying Book
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Publisher : Catapult
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781948226455
ISBN-13 : 1948226456
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Crying Book by : Heather Christle

Download or read book The Crying Book written by Heather Christle and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.

Particular Passions

Particular Passions
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Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X000370111
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Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Particular Passions by : Lynn Gilbert

Download or read book Particular Passions written by Lynn Gilbert and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 1981 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with Lillian Hellman, Agnes de Mille, Margaret Mead, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinem, Billie Jean King, Bella Abzug, Diana Vreeland, Julia Child, Sylvia Porter, Alberta Hunter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Barbara Walters, and Betty Friedan, among others.

Sight

Sight
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Publisher : Hogarth
Total Pages : 158
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ISBN-10 : 9780525574620
ISBN-13 : 052557462X
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Sight by : Jessie Greengrass

Download or read book Sight written by Jessie Greengrass and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 'A dazzling obsessive entry in a burgeoning genre. Unusual and absorbing... the novel as a whole exudes a strange consoling power.' – The New Yorker 'Sight delves into a lot in under 200 pages: mothers and daughters, birth and death, loss and grief, finding one's balance, the ardor and arduousness of scientific discovery. Readers willing to give themselves over to Greengrass' penetrating vision will surely expand theirs.' – NPR 'With visceral, elegantly wrought truths of life and loss, this is an exciting companion to Sheila Heti's recent Motherhood (2018).' – Booklist In Jessie Greengrass' dazzlingly brilliant debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother. Woven among these personal recollections are significant events in medical history: Wilhelm Rontgen’s discovery of the X-ray; Sigmund Freud’s development of psychoanalysis and the work that he did with his daughter, Anna; and the origins of modern surgery and the anatomy of pregnant bodies. Sight is a novel about being a parent and a child: what it is like to bring a person in to the world, and what it is to let one go. Exquisitely written and fiercely intelligent, it is an incisive exploration of how we see others, and how we might know ourselves.