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"In 1978 the world's first "test tube baby" was born from in vitro fertilization (IVF), effectively ushering in a paradigm shift for infertility treatment that relied on partially disembodied human reproduction. Beyond IVF, the ability to extract, fertilize, and store reproductive cells outside of the human body has created new opportunities for family building, but also prompted new conflicts about rights to and control over reproductive cells. In collaborative forms of reproduction that build on IVF-technologies, such as egg and embryo donation, and gestational surrogacy, multiple women may variously contribute to conception, gestation/birth, and then legal and social responsibilities for rearing a child, creating intentionally fragmented maternities. Undoing Motherhood examines the implications of such fragmented maternities in the post-IVF reproductive era for generating maternity uncertainty-an increasing cultural ambiguity about what does and should constitute maternity. Undoing Motherhood explores this uncertainty in the social worlds of reproductive medicine and law"--

"This book offers visual, social-historical analyses of paintings and drawings by the German Communist Karl Schwesig, following the course of Schwesig's own internments and the dehumanizing treatment that characterized the racialization of Jewish and "mixed-race" persons in Vichy France and the attempted elimination of political dissidents"--

"There's something about a fresh haircut that can change a black man's outlook on the world, change his outlook on himself. The experience extends beyond just the cut but to the environment of the barber shop. Growing up, getting my hair cut was a weekly event I looked forward to more than anything. My uncle Jason was a barber and embodied for me everything cool. There in that tilted chair, under the hand of my uncle, surrounded by members of my community and totems of our shared experience, I felt safe--felt like anything was possible. Over the years, I came to understand that barber shops are more than places simply to get a cut. They are about the only spaces in American life created where black men can speak and receive feedback about who we are, who we want to be, and what we believe to be true about the world around us. The interpretation of the barber shop as community center falls short of capturing what they really are for so many black men: sanctuaries in a hostile land. You Next is an intimate photographic exploration of the ways black barber shops operate as sites for the cultivation of black male identity and wellness in major US cities --Gary, Indiana; Washington DC; New York City; Oakland; Atlanta; Los Angeles; Detroit; New Orleans; Montgomery; Memphis, and my hometown of Philadelphia. These photos, interviews, and essays tell the full story of the black barber shop in America.'You next'is what a barber says to customers to communicate that they're on deck for a haircut; it's the question between customers to determine where they are in line. Thus, it is an invitation, an invocation, an affirmation. Because after waiting your turn in a barber shop, sharing, laughing, debating, those magic words signify you are about to be transformed."--Publisher description

"Coming Out Queer Online argues that social media is a dominant force in the lives of LGBTQ individuals. Through examining archives, talking with individuals, and analyzing social media feeds, the author highlights the many ways that social media acts as both a freeing as well as an oppressive environment for many within the LGBTQ community"--

Following the money: funding woman suffrage -- Unequal women working for women's equality: power and resentment in the woman suffrage movement -- Dictating with dollars: funding working-class women -- An education for women equal to that of men: funding colleges for women -- Using mammon for righteousness: funding coeducation through coercive philanthropy -- Margaret Sanger's network of feminists: funding the birth control movement -- Feminism and science: funding research for the pill

This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in the First World War through their embrace of mysticism.