Description
| Product ID: | 9781925581911 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | AU |
| Title: | Defiant Birth |
| Subtitle: | Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics |
| Authors: | Author: Melinda Tankard Reist |
| Subjects: | Ethical issues: abortion and birth control, Ethical issues: abortion & birth control |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In the face of widespread discrimination against the disabled and a eugenic culture which pathologises disability and crushes diversity, comes a new book which radically challenges the status quo. Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics, tells the personal stories of women who have resisted medical eugenics - women who were told they shouldn't have babies because of perceived disability in themselves or because of some imperfection in the child. They have confronted the stigma of disability and in the face of silent disapproval and even open hostility, had their children anyway, in the belief that all life is valuable and that some are not more worthy of it than others. In the face of widespread discrimination against the disabled and a eugenic culture which pathologises disability and crushes diversity, comes a new book which radically challenges the status quo. Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics, tells the personal stories of women who have resisted medical eugenics - women who were told they shouldn''t have babies because of perceived disability in themselves or because of some imperfection in the child. They have confronted the stigma of disability and in the face of silent disapproval and even open hostility, had their children anyway, in the belief that all life is valuable and that some are not more worthy of it than others. |
| Imprint Name: | Spinifex Press |
| Publisher Name: | Spinifex Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-04-02 |
