Emma Brockes

Emma Brockes is thirty-seven, lives alone, and wants children. She is in a relationship (good!) but they arent doing the parenting together (weird!). Emma needs sperm, a doctor, and not to bankrupt herself. And thats just the beginning - there are a million choices to make when taking the untraditional route to motherhood. Then theres the uninvited opinions, scolding and general hysteria that always accompanies a womans decision to have (or not to have) children. With generous heart and humour, Panic & Joy examines essential questions about motherhood and the modern family.

When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed. Growing up in a tranquil English village, Emma knew very little of her mothers life before her. She knew Paula had grown up in South Africa and had seven siblings. She had been told stories about deadly snakes and hailstones the size of golf balls. There was mention, once, of a trial. But most of the past was a mystery. When her mother dies of cancer, Emma - by then a successful journalist at the Guardian - is free to investigate the untold story. Her search begins in the Colindale library but then takes her to South Africa, to the extended family she has never met and their accounts of a childhood so different to her own.She encounters versions of the life her mother chose to leave behind - and realises what a gift her mother gave her.Part investigation, part travelogue, part elegy, She Left Me the Gun is a gripping, funny and clear-eyed account of a writers search for her mothers story.

When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant, she quickly realises that, being single, 37, and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, shes going to have to be untraditional about it. From the moment she decides to stop "futzing" around, have her eggs counted, and "get cracking"; through multiple trials of IUI, which she is intrigued to learn can be purchased in bulk packages, just like Costco; to the births of her twins, which her girlfriend gamely documents with her iPhone and selfie-stick, Brockes is never any less than bluntly honest about her extraordinary journey to motherhood.She quizzes her friends on the pros and cons of personally knowing ones sperm donor, grapples with esoteric medical jargon and the existential brain-melt of flipping through donor catalogues and conjures with the politics of her Libertarian OB/GYN-all the while exploring the cultural circumstances and choices that have brought her to this point. Brockes writes with charming self-effacing humour about being a British woman undergoing fertility treatment in the US, poking fun at the starkly different attitude of Americans. Anxious that biological children might not be possible, she wonders, should she resent society for how it regards and treats women who try and fail to have children?Brockes deftly uses her own story to examine how and why an increasing number of women are using fertility treatments in order to become parents-and are doing it solo. Bringing the reader every step of the way with mordant wit and remarkable candour, Brockes shares the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of her momentous and excellent choice.

Megan Rapinoe, ganadora de una medalla de oro olímpica y dos veces campeona de la Copa Mundial Femenina, se ha convertido en una fuerza impulsora del cambio social. En este libro nos pide a todos nosotros que tomemos el relevo para continuar la lucha por la justicia y la igualdad. Criada en un pequeño pueblo conservador del norte de California, y siendo la menor de seis hermanos, Megan tenia solo cuatro años cuando chuto su primer balon de futbol. Sus padres apoyaron su amor por el juego, pero le enseñaron que ganar era mucho menos importante que decidir como iba a vivir su vida. Desde su infancia, Rapinoe siempre hizo lo que pudo para defender lo que era correcto, incluso si eso significaba enfrentarse a personas que no estaban de acuerdo. En One Life, Rapinoe reflexiona sobre sus elecciones, victorias y fracasos, y se embarca en un debate reflexivo y sincero sobre su viaje personal hacia la justicia social. Despues de la Copa Mundial de 2011, desanimada por el escaso numero de deportistas dispuestos a hablar de su sexualidad, Rapinoe decidio reconocerse publicamente como lesbiana y utilizar su plataforma para defender la igualdad en el matrimonio. Al darse cuenta del poder que tenia para llamar la atencion sobre temas criticos, en 2016 se arrodillo durante el himno nacional en so...

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