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Ask me about my tubal ligation
- Author
- Lawrance, Sarah.
- Title
- Ask me about my tubal ligation / [written by Sarah Lawrance, with contribution by Matt McLennan ; other artwork by Eric Drooker].
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Ottawa, Ont., Canada : Exile Press, 2010.
- Description
- 36 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Notes
- Cover title. Zine.
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Part 1: Growing up a girl
- Little women
- The "good girl" complex
- Freedom ...?
- Part 2 : The doctors
- My family doctor
- Gynecologist : attempt #1
- Gynecologist : attempt #2
- A systemic problem
- The surgery
- Persuasion
- The risks
- Part 3 : Baby-making machines
- Bad options
- The wrong reasons
- Part 4: Building a better world
- "Our" tubal ligation / Matt McLennan
- Resources & good reads.
- Summary
- Sarah Lawrance writes about her decision get a tubal ligation instead of taking birth control. She writes about contraception, what it means to her to be to be gendered female, her Catholic school background, people's reactions to her having procedure done at 25, eugenics practices, vasectomy, reasons to have or not have children, and includes an essay about her decision from her feminist boyfriend.
- Kinsey subjects
- Tubal ligation. Status of women.