ladyhd's review
4.0
I respect the hell out of parents, but reading about birth makes me lightheaded. I really appreciated the stories about miscarriage, which are open and frank, and don't sugarcoat feelings of loss and guilt. I wish parents who experienced loss weren't pushed into shame, and this book feels like a great starting point.
zepysgirl's review
3.0
By this point I’ve read more than a few graphic medicine memoirs that cover fertility issues, and I felt like those were better at covering the subject than this book (indeed, some of them were even excerpted here…). Also, for an anthology I would’ve expected something more… balanced. It seemed like the editors mainly chose stories where terrible things happened.
delladahlia's review
5.0
This should be required reading for every high school or college sex ed class. I learned more here then from my college health counselor.
timbooksin's review
5.0
This book is so solid, IMHO. I love how it's positioned as a start to a broader discourse and that it's obviously missing important narratives and voices and challenges the reader to identify and fill those gaps. It's also positioned as a feminist work that challenges the medicalization of reproduction. Because it draws on comics from a variety of time periods and contexts, the types and expressions of feminism vary greatly. At times, I was entirely uncomfortable but that's when I knew this was an amazing collection.
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