The Resource An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood, Emma Brockes
An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood, Emma Brockes
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The item An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood, Emma Brockes represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library.
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- Summary
- "From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction. When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant, she quickly realizes that, being single, 37, and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, she's 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 and bracingly honest about her extraordinary journey to motherhood. She quizzes her friends on the pros and cons of personally knowing one's 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 humor 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 candor, Brockes shares the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of her momentous and excellent choice"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Contents
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- "Are you going to do it, then?"
- Origin story
- The selfish gene
- tubes
- Sperm
- January 2014
- Drugs
- Waiting
- Falling
- Rising
- England
- New Year's Eve
- Neonatal
- Isbn
- 9781594206634
- Label
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- Title
- An excellent choice
- Title remainder
- panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood
- Statement of responsibility
- Emma Brockes
- Subject
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- Biography
- Brockes, Emma
- Brockes, Emma -- Health
- England
- Fertilization in vitro, Human
- Fertilization in vitro, Human -- Biography
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pregnancy & Childbirth
- Autobiographies
- Health
- Infertility, Female -- Patients
- Infertility, Female -- Patients -- England -- Biography
- Mothers
- Mothers -- England -- Biography
- HUMOR -- Topic | Marriage & Family
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional and life-changing decision to conceive a child on one's own via assisted reproduction. When British journalist, memoirist, and New York-transplant Emma Brockes decides to become pregnant, she quickly realizes that, being single, 37, and in the early stages of a same-sex relationship, she's 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 and bracingly honest about her extraordinary journey to motherhood. She quizzes her friends on the pros and cons of personally knowing one's 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 humor 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 candor, Brockes shares the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of her momentous and excellent choice"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brockes, Emma
- Dewey number
- 618.1/780599092
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RG135
- LC item number
- .B74 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Brockes, Emma
- Brockes, Emma
- Fertilization in vitro, Human
- Infertility, Female
- Mothers
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- HEALTH & FITNESS
- HUMOR
- Fertilization in vitro, Human
- Health
- Infertility, Female
- Mothers
- England
- Label
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood, Emma Brockes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "Are you going to do it, then?" -- Origin story -- The selfish gene -- tubes -- Sperm -- January 2014 -- Drugs -- Waiting -- Falling -- Rising -- England -- New Year's Eve -- Neonatal
- Control code
- on1007577249
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594206634
- Lccn
- 2018006198
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1007577249
- Label
- An excellent choice : panic and joy on my solo path to motherhood, Emma Brockes
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "Are you going to do it, then?" -- Origin story -- The selfish gene -- tubes -- Sperm -- January 2014 -- Drugs -- Waiting -- Falling -- Rising -- England -- New Year's Eve -- Neonatal
- Control code
- on1007577249
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594206634
- Lccn
- 2018006198
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1007577249
Subject
- Biography
- Brockes, Emma
- Brockes, Emma -- Health
- England
- Fertilization in vitro, Human
- Fertilization in vitro, Human -- Biography
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pregnancy & Childbirth
- Autobiographies
- Health
- Infertility, Female -- Patients
- Infertility, Female -- Patients -- England -- Biography
- Mothers
- Mothers -- England -- Biography
- HUMOR -- Topic | Marriage & Family
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
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