The art of waiting: on fertility, medicine, and motherhood / Belle Boggs.
When Belle Boggs' "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine and an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show. In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her-the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo-for signs that she is not alone. Boggs also explores other aspects of fertility and infertility: the way longing for a child plays out in the classic Coen brothers film Raising Arizona; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from Macbeth to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; the financial and legal complications that accompany alternative means of family making; the private and public expressions of iconic writers grappling with motherhood and fertility. She reports, with great empathy, complex stories of couples who adopted domestically and from overseas, LGBT couples considering assisted reproduction and surrogacy, and women and men reflecting on childless or child-free lives.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781681683232 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1681683237 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 34 min.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : HighBridge : 2016.
Content descriptions
Restrictions on Access Note: | Digital content provided by hoopla. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by C. S. E. Cooney. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Boggs, Belle > Health. Infertility, Female > Patients > United States > Biography. Infertility > Psychological aspects. Infertility > Political aspects. |
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