Renate Klein: 8 books

Dr. Renate Klein, schweiz-australische Biologin, Sozialwissenschaftlerin und langjährige Frauengesundheitsaktivistin, beschreibt in diesem Buch die katastrophalen Folgen der frauenfeindlichen und rassistischen Ausbeutung von unterprivilegierten Frauen als "Brutöfen" und Eizellen-"Spenderinnen"...

Pared down to cold hard facts, surrogacy is the commissioning/buying/ renting of a woman into whose womb an embryo is inserted and who thus becomes a 'breeder' for a third party. Surrogacy is heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry which seeks new markets for women over 40, and gay men who...

Family members, friends, coworkers and neighbors are often the first to know that a woman has been abused by an intimate male partner. What is the proper course of action for those with knowledge of abuse? Using a wide range of empirical data from international sources, Renate Klein documents informal...

With examples from throughout Europe and the United States, the contributors to this volume explore how gender violence is framed through language and what this means for research and policy. Language shapes responses to abuse and approaches to perpetrators and interfaces with national debates about gender, violence, and social change.

Thousands of people obtain babies through surrogacy arrangements. The general public is compassionate to their plight and supportive of their 'right' to a baby. But who are the nameless women who give birth to these babies? In this book, strong and courageous women from the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia,...

A classic text for health activists and feminists interested in the complexities of how drugs are developed, marketed, and sold to women around the world, this book reviews the unusual history of the French abortion pill RU-486. Critical of the positive claims made for RU-486, it argues that its...

Erstmals führt der vorliegende Kommentar alle Aspekte zusammen, die für die Interpretation dieser Spätschrift des Alten Testaments relevant sind: Textkritik, philologische und literarische Analyse; der zweifache historische Kontext mit der Verbindung zur griechisch-hellenistischen Umwelt einerseits...

Alle Jahre Für und Wider Weihnachten … Die Zeit der peinlichen Krippenspiele, der unbedachten Geschenke, der kleinen und großen Wunder. Man verbringt die Feiertage zu Hause, auf dem Weg dahin im Zug – oder auch mal als Weihnachtsbaum verkleidet in den Ecken fremder Wohnzimmer. Wir feiern einsam,...