Breaking Up with Birth Control
Why Women Are Staging a Reproductive Rebellion
$26.31
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2027
Summary
An essential resource for women navigating their own reproductive healthcare and making decisions as active participants with fully informed consent
Women are staging a reproductive rebellion. For decades, public health has organised reproduction around a simple premise: women should prevent pregnancy with effective contraception unless deemed “fit” for motherhood - and treat abortion as exceptional failure. That settlement is now unravelling. Pill use is declining sharply; abortion r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781447379317 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1447379314 |
| Author: | Rosie McNee, Clare Murphy |
| Publisher: | Bristol University Press |
| Imprint: | Policy Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
“A fascinating read examining the complexities of reproductive choice and challenging tired assumptions around how women manage their fertility.”
Dame Cathy Warwick, former chair of BPAS
Rosie McNee
Dr. Rosie McNee is a Public Health Consultant in Scotland. She has worked with the Scottish Government on issues related to abortion, contraception, and young people’s sexual wellbeing. Her research on changes in women’s contraceptive use at the time of abortion in the UK is widely cited. She is also a member of the Faculty of Public Health’s Special Interest Groups on Health of Women and Girls and Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Clare Murphy is an experienced women’s health advocate who has successfully campaigned for changes to law and policy to improve women’s rights in pregnancy and their access to contraception and abortion. She is a Senior Research Fellow on the Wellcome-funded Contragestive Time project, a major program exploring new methods of fertility control that challenge the divide between contraception and abortion. Previously, she served as chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS).
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