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Elly Teman Berkley: University of California Press, 2010 Reviewed by Megan McCullough Elly Teman’s Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self elegantly and aptly illustrates Ginsburg and Rapp’s (1995) classic yet cogent point that reproduction is at …

Marlene Zuk, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002 Reviewed by Mimi Saunders, University of California Irvine Zuk is a feminist behavioral biologist who writes to bridge the opposition between feminists and Darwinian biology. She is most successful when illustrating how …

Barbara Katz Rothman, W.W. Norton & Co., 1998 Reviewed by Karen-Sue Taussig This intensely personal foray into social aspects of genetics is alternately fascinating and frustrating. Barbara Katz Rothman tells us that “[a]ll knowledge is knowledge from somewhere. Every way …