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How to Belong by Sarah Franklin 9781785764868
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €15.66'The kind of book that gives you hope and courage. I loved it' Kit de Waal'Insightful, thoughtful' Carys Bray'I relished every word' Shelley Harris'Such a warm and touching novel' Lissa Evans A... -
Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy by Sarah Franklin
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human cloning, in Dolly Mixtures the anthropologist Sarah Franklin looks beyond... -
Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies by Sarah Franklin
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €32.02The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory... -
Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies by Sarah Franklin
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65This anthology of new work is the first since Women Take Issue to bring together feminist theory and cultural studies. Continuing the tradition of collective scholarship from the internationally... -
Shelter: 'One of the year's hottest debuts' by Sarah Franklin 9781785762826
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.21An S Magazine MUST HAVE'Beautiful' Adele Parks'Life affirming and compelling!' Clare Mackintosh'Tender and illuminating' Carys Bray'Its characters pulse with life and energy . . . vividly rendered'... -
Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception Sarah Franklin 9781032256672
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.24This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's findings in the... -
Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation by Sarah Franklin 9780812215847
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Focusing on the key themes of power, kinship, and technological innovation, this volume offers a set of carefully argued empirical studies that emphasize the importance of ethnographic method, as... -
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Dolly Mixtures: The Remaking of Genealogy by Sarah Franklin 9780822339038 [USED COPY]
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €35.63While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human cloning, in Dolly Mixtures the anthropologist Sarah Franklin looks beyond... -
Born and Made: An Ethnography of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis by Sarah Franklin 9780691121932
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €39.06Are new reproductive and genetic technologies racing ahead of a society that is unable to establish limits to their use? Have the "new genetics" outpaced our ability to control their future... -
Biological Relatives: IVF, Stem Cells, and the Future of Kinship by Sarah Franklin
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine... -
Remaking Life & Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences by Sarah Franklin 9781930618206
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and... -
The 14 Day Rule and Human Embryo Research: A Sociology of Biological Translation by Sarah Franklin 9781032277899
RRP: €45.21Booksplease Price: €41.16This assessment of Britain’s influential 14 day rule governing embryo research explores how and why it became the de facto global standard for research into human fertilisation and embryology,... -
The New Reproductive Order: Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe Sarah Franklin 9781479832620
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €76.66The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half century Both fertility and infertility are commonly depicted as individual, biological, and choice dependent conditions... -
The New Reproductive Order: Technology, Fertility, and Social Change around the Globe Sarah Franklin 9781479832644
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.39The transformative impact of new reproductive technologies over the past half century Both fertility and infertility are commonly depicted as individual, biological, and choice dependent conditions... -
How to Belong: 'The kind of book that gives you hope and courage' Kit de Waal by Sarah Franklin
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94'This atmospheric read is simply beautiful.' Woman & Home How can home be found, when you are lost?When two very different women find themselves sharing a home, they must confront their pasts in... -
To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790 by Joan R. Gundersen 9780807856970
Booksplease Price: €50.46Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a... -
The One About The Sheep and Other Stories: ChipLitFest Short Story Winners 2016 - 2022: 2022 by Catherine Evans 9781739630508
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.84The sheep that's a good listener. The woman and the ice cream salesman. The young man who falls in love with a washing machine. That age old tale. Funny, macabre, heart-breaking, eerie,... -
When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico by Cori Hayden 9780691095578
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €39.06Bioprospecting--the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance--has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and... -
The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century by Nikolas Rose
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €39.06For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques... -
Transatlantic Conversations: Feminism as Travelling Theory by Mary Evans 9781138254428
RRP: €65.44Booksplease Price: €58.36The second wave of feminism which challenged and changed many assumptions about the world in which we live was a product of various western cultures, with no single country possessing a monopoly on... -
Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond by Stefan Helmreich 9780691164816
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.19What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists--biologists, oceanographers, and audio... -
Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception by Jeanette Edwards
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €55.86Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691128672
RRP: €173.74Booksplease Price: €138.33Volume Three of the definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death presents 567 documents covering the period from 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 30: 1 January 1798 to 31 January 1799 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691094984
RRP: €173.74Booksplease Price: €138.33During the thirteen months covered by this volume, Thomas Jefferson spent more than half of his time in Philadelphia serving as vice president under President John Adams and presiding over a Senate... -
Reading Hindi: Novice to Intermediate by Kusum Knapczyk
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €39.72Reading Hindi: Novice to Intermediate is an innovative collection of graded readings that are both accessible in language and engaging in content, specifically designed for adult learners of Hindi... -
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds by Kate Hampshire 9781782388074
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €101.34..".a fascinating read... The complex intersections between gender, kinship, region, nationality, ethnicity, and religion - as well as the vicissitudes of individual agency - are very clearly... -
Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America: The Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago 9781529236057
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €78.59Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, this book analyses how Indigenous peasant women who have experienced reproductive violence describe the harms of forced sterilization and the complexities of... -
The Cosmopolitanization of Science: Stem Cell Governance in China by J. Zhang 9780230302594
Booksplease Price: €55.62Focussing on China's stem cell research, this book investigates how, over the last decade, Chinese scientists, ethicists and policy-makers have developed a cosmopolitan sensibility in comprehending... -
The Embryo Research Debate: Science and the Politics of Reproduction by Michael Mulkay 9780521571807
RRP: €116.61Booksplease Price: €110.94Scientific research involving human embryos was a major topic of public debate in Britain during the 1980s. Despite strong support from the scientific community, embryo research was initially... -
The Embryo Research Debate: Science and the Politics of Reproduction by Michael Mulkay 9780521576833
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €40.33Scientific research involving human embryos was a major topic of public debate in Britain during the 1980s. Despite strong support from the scientific community, embryo research was initially... -
Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling by Jaya Keaney 9781478025368
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78In Making Gaybies Jaya Keaney explores queer family making as a site of racialized intimacy. Drawing on interviews with queer families in Australia, Keaney traces the lived experiences of choice and... -
Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism by Helena Ragone
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.33Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood charts new territory by exploring the notion of motherhood for women of differing classes, races, religions and nations in the light of various strategies... -
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Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism by Celia Roberts 9780521681971 [USED COPY]
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €8.47Since the early twentieth century, hormones have commonly been understood as 'messengers of sex'. They are seen as essential to the development and functioning of healthy reproductive male and female... -
Messengers of Sex: Hormones, Biomedicine and Feminism by Celia Roberts 9780521681971
Booksplease Price: €38.22Since the early twentieth century, hormones have commonly been understood as 'messengers of sex'. They are seen as essential to the development and functioning of healthy reproductive male and female... -
Science Wars by Andrew Ross 9780822318712
Booksplease Price: €41.19In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman... -
My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26'I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey... -
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My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster 9780099593973 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €2.58'I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey... -
Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel by Susan Martha Kahn 9780822325987
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Israel has the world's highest per capita rate of in-vitro fertilization procedures. Fertility... -
Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century by Niki Vermeulen
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.33Increasing knowledge of the biological is fundamentally transforming what life itself means and where its boundaries lie. New developments in the biosciences - especially through the molecularisation... -
Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation Maralee Mayberry 9780415926966
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €63.36This essential text contains contributions from a wide range of fields and provides role models for feminist scientists. Including chapters from scientists and feminist scholars, the book presents a...