Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor mentor and writer but in her own home she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy "Mothertrucker" Wiebe--the nations only female ice road trucker. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous beautiful and exhilarating--an adventurous ride through the Alaskan...

A provocative examination of reproductive technologies that questions our understanding of fertility, motherhood, and the female body. Since the world's first test-tube baby was born in 1978, in vitro fertilization has made the unimaginable possible for millions of people. Yet today, the revolutionary potential of babies in bottles remains unrealized. Fertility centers continue to reinforce conservative norms of motherhood and family, and infertility...

"A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes...