Parravani Christa Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood 9781250756848

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Автор: Parravani Christa
Название: Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood
ISBN: 9781250756848
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1250756847
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 224
Вес: 0.32 кг.
Дата издания: 13.10.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 211 x 137 x 28
Поставляется из: США
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A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her

Christa Parravani was forty years old, in a troubled marriage, and in bad financial straits when she learned she was pregnant with her third child. She and her family were living in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she had taken a professorial position at the local university.

Haunted by a childhood steeped in poverty and violence and by young adult years rocked by the tragic death of her identical twin sister, Christa hoped her professors salary and health care might set her and her young family on a safe and steady path. Instead, one year after the birth of her second child, Christa found herself pregnant again. Six weeks into the pregnancy, she requested an abortion. And in the weeks, then months, that followed, nurses obfuscated and doctors refused outright or feared being found out to the point of, ultimately, becoming unavailable to provide Christa with reproductive choice.

By the time Christa understood that she would need to leave West Virginia to obtain a safe, legal abortion, shed run out of time. She had failed to imagine that she might not have access to reproductive choice in the United States, until it was too late for her, her pregnancy too far along.

So she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Keats. And another frightening education began: available healthcare was dangerously inadequate to her newborn sons needs; indeed, environmental degradations and poor healthcare endangered Christas older children as well.

Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a womans 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 for their childrens lives.

Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood, Parravani Christa