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Boggs, Belle.
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Boggs, Belle -- Health.
Infertility, Female -- Patients -- Biography.
Infertility -- Psychological aspects.
Infertility -- Political aspects.
Motherhood -- Psychological aspects.
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Boggs, Belle.
Boggs, Belle -- Health.
Infertility, Female -- Patients -- Biography.
Infertility -- Psychological aspects.
Infertility -- Political aspects.
Motherhood -- Psychological aspects.
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The
art
of
waiting
: on
fertility
,
medicine
, and
motherhood
/ Belle Boggs.
by
Boggs, Belle.
Graywolf Press, 2016.
Call #:
362.198178 B674a
Subjects
Boggs, Belle -- Health.
Infertility, Female -- Patients -- Biography.
Infertility -- Psychological aspects.
Infertility -- Political aspects.
Motherhood
-- Psychological aspects.
ISBN:
9781555977498 (pbk.)
Description:
242 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of
fertility
. When Belle Boggs's "The
Art
of
Waiting
" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and a spot at the intersection of "highbrow" and "brilliant" in New York magazine's "Approval Matrix." In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her - the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo - for signs that she is not alone. Boggs also explores other aspects of
fertility
and infertility: the way longing for a child plays out in the classic Coen brothers film Raising Arizona; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from Macbeth to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; the financial and legal complications that accompany alternative means of family making; the private and public expressions of iconic writers grappling with
motherhood
and
fertility
. She reports, with great empathy, complex stories of couples who adopted domestically and from overseas, LGBT couples considering assisted reproduction and surrogacy, and women and men reflecting on childless or child-free lives. Boggs deftly distills her time of
waiting
into an expansive contemplation of
fertility
, choice, and the many possible roads to making a life and making a family"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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Woodlawn Public Library
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