
Threads
Lisa
Publisher: Threads
Paperback: 193 pages
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Threads is a collection of a mass of information and ideas about experiences and politics of the menstrual cycle, about changes that can happen during the menstrual cycle, about female anatomy and sexuality and about so-called PMS. It examines and critiques western medicine's understanding of the human body generally and then particularly in relation to female bodies and experiences.
N'Dréa
One Woman's Fight to Die Her Own Way
Andréa Dorea
Publisher: Eberhardt Press
Paperback: 83 pages
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Andréa (N’Dréa) was involved with Os Cangaceiros, a group of social rebels who refused the slavery of work and mercilessly attacked the prison system of France in the 1980s and '90s. In 1985, she learned that she had cancer. After surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment, she walked out of the medical world for good. N'Dréa explains that decision with intelligence, anger and joy. It is a powerful condemnation of the medical industry, a passionate analysis of the society of the commodity and its destruction of the human individual, and a personal expression of one woman’s decision to live her life fully and to die on her own terms among those she loved, in defiance of a society that steals both our lives and deaths away.
My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization
Chellis Glendinning
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Paperback: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 087773996X
ISBN-13: 9780877739968
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"You and I are not people who live in communion with the earth," Glendinning begins. "We exist instead dislocated from our roots by the psychological, philosophical, and technological constructions of our civilization, and this alienation leads to our suffering: massive suffering for each and every one of us, and mass suffering throughout our society." Discusses how the process used to recover from addiction could be used to help heal our society and the earth.
Sick Planet
Stan Cox
Publisher: Pluto Press
Paperback: 232 pages
ISBN-10: 0745327400
ISBN-13: 9780745327402
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Neoliberals often point to improvements in public health and nutrition as examples of globalisation's success, but this book argues that the corporate food and medicine industries are destroying environments and ruining living conditions across the world.
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