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Making Sense of Parenthood: Caring, Gender and Family Lives

Tina Miller

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Following on from Making Sense of Motherhood (2005) and Making Sense of Fatherhood (2010), Tina...

Wise Women: Wit and Wisdom from Some of the World's Most Extraordinary Women

Carole McKenzie

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"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth". (Erma Bombeck). Women are never at a...

Your Pregnancy Nutrition Guide: What to Eat When You're Pregnant

Henrietta Norton

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Drawing on over a decade of work with mothers-to-be, expert nutritionist Henrietta Norton provides...

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The Farm

Joanne Ramos | 2019 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"A dystopian novel that feels like it could be happening today, where women who either can’t or won’t carry their own pregnancies rent the wombs of a hand-picked cohort of gestational surrogates, who spend their nine months being closely monitored in a posh resort that’s like Canyon Ranch meets the panopticon. The story follows Jane, a poor surrogate from the Philippines, desperate to obtain a better life for her daughter, and the women around her, from the older nanny who hooks her up with the gig to the wealthy young striver who dreamed up the business to a fellow surrogate who has reasons of her own for participating in the project. Nobody’s motives are pure and, when one of the surrogates threatens to expose the Farm, it turns out that the business of surrogacy is as complicated as motherhood itself."

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