Woman as comestible. Woman as kingmaker. Woman as oblivion.

Why is our culture governed by the principle of separation? Beginning with a devastating exploration of the 1960s, understood up until now as the era of female liberation, free love and the tribal sharing of drugs, Antonella Gambotto-Burke deconstructs the past two centuries and shows how we are, in fact, moving towards the age of the Nietzschean ubermensch, in which femininity will, if we do not change, be erased.

She skilfully draws together diverse threads, from the shockingly personal to the broadest societal trends and cutting-edge scientific research, to construct a brilliant and startling thesis that medicinal and recreational drugs have rewired our bodies and brains to an near-incomprehensible extent. Anxiety, artificial wombs, brutality, the class system, depression, dieting, racism and other issues - including the first plausible theory for rubber fetishism and other 'kinks' such as choking or breathplay - are explained within the context of the dominant cultural paradigm.

A devastating uppercut to a patriarchal ideology that has marred billions of lives, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine completely revises our understanding of addiction, art, drug use, homosexuality, murder, pornography, sex, war, and, critically, the significance of birth, infancy and motherhood in relation to human existence.

You will never see anything the same way again.

About the Author

Antonella Gambotto-Burke is a regular contributor to various international newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times, The Telegraph and The Weekend Australian. She is also the author of Mama: Love, Motherhood and Revolution, which features a foreword by Michel Odent and which KJS Anand, Rosen von Rosenstein Laureate 2009, and Professor of Paediatrics, Anaesthesiology, Anatomy and Neurobiology, described as "undeniably the most important book of the 21st century". The Mirror (UK) recently included Antonella in a select group of the world's most inspiring feminists. Follow her on Facebook , Twitter, and Instagram.

Book Information
ISBN 9781780667409
Author Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Pinter & Martin Ltd.
Publisher Pinter & Martin Ltd.