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Belabored - A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women (Hardcover)
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Belabored - A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women (Hardcover)
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The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed
world, a rate that is increasing, even as infant mortality rates
decrease. Meanwhile, the right-wing assault on reproductive rights
and bodily autonomy has also escalated. We can already glimpse a
reality where embryos and fetuses have more rights than the people
gestating them, and even women who aren't pregnant are seen first
and foremost as potential incubators. In Belabored, journalist Lyz
Lenz lays bare the misogynistic logic of U.S. cultural narratives
about pregnancy, tracing them back to our murky, potent cultural
soup of myths, from the religious to the historical. In the present
she details, with her trademark blend of wit, snark, and raw
intimacy, how sexist assumptions inform our expectations for
pregnant people, whether we're policing them, asking them to make
sacrifices with dubious or disproven benefits, or putting them up
on a pedestal in an "Earth mother" role. Throughout, she reflects
on her own experiences of being seen as alternately a vessel or a
goddess--but hardly ever as herself--while carrying each of her two
children. Belabored is an urgent call for us to embrace new
narratives around pregnancy and the choice whether or not to have
children, emphasising wholeness and agency, and to reflect those
values in our laws, medicine, and interactions with each other.
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