Missed Conceptions How We Make Sense of Infertility
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by Karen Stollznow
English | 2023 | ISBN: 150648526X | 258 pages | True PDF EPUB | 7.81 MB
Infertility is one of the most painful and painfullycommon of human experiences. One in six couples will experience fertility challenges when they attempt to get pregnant, and while more and more people have spoken openly about infertility in recent years, the experience can still be incredibly isolating.
But none of us is alone in our struggles. In fact, infertility is a universal part of the human experience that is mentioned in the earliest human writings. Across cultures and throughout time, the experiences of people who have faced fertility problems are widely discussed in early manuscripts, medical treatises, diaries, novels, poetry, plays, and song.
After her own decade-long struggle to conceive, linguist and historian Karen Stollznow journeyed through history-from ancient civilizations and religions, to early-modern folklore, to current-day popular culture and modern medical practice-to try to make sense of what we mean by infertility...
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