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100	1		_aAgarwal, Pragya, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_a(M)otherhood : _bon the choices of being a woman / _cPragya Agarwal.
246	3		_aMotherhood
264		1	_aEdinburgh : _bCanongate, _c2021.
300			_a374 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aI. The Age of Innocence -- II. The Age of Defiance -- III. Hobson's Choice -- IV. Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock -- V. Fruitless Crown -- VI. Half-women Creatures -- VII. The Blue Line -- VIII. Fork in the Road -- IX. Umbilical Cord -- Coda.
520			_a"In a world where women have more choices than ever, society nevertheless continues to exert the stigma and pressures of less enlightened times when it comes to having children. We define women by whether they embrace or reject motherhood; whether they can give birth or not. Behavioural Scientist Pragya Agarwal uses her own varied experiences and choices as a woman of South Asian heritage to examine the broader societal, historical and scientific factors that drive how we think and talk about motherhood. She looks at how women's bodies have been monitored and controlled through history, and how this shapes the political constructs of motherhood and womanhood now.Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society's obsession with women's bodies and fertility." --
650		0	_aReproductive rights.
650		0	_aHuman reproduction _xSocial aspects.
776	0	8	_iebook version : _z9781838853198
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