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A WOMAN'S BATTLE WITH THE BILLION-DOLLAR BABY BUSINESSCracked Open is Miriam Zoll's eye-opening account of growing into womanhood with the simultaneous opportunities and freedoms afforded by the U.S. women's movement and new discoveries in reproductive technologies. Influenced by the pervasive media and cultural messages suggesting that science had eclipsed Mother Nature, Zoll--like millions of women around the world--postpones marriage and motherhood. She embarks on an exciting career, travels the globe, and eventually marries in her mid-30s. By 40, she has finally overcome her fears of being an unfit mother and is ready to embrace motherhood but nature does not cooperate.In accordance with the times, she and her husband sign up for fertility treatments but neither one is prepared for the science-fiction world they have entered; a world full of medical seduction, capitalist conception and bioethical quagmires.
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Zoll is a public speaker, educator and advocate with more than 20 years experience in the reproductive health and international public policy arena. The founding co-producer of the Ms. Foundation for Women's original "Take Our Daughters To Work Day", she is a current member of the boards of Our Bodies Ourselves and Voice Male Magazine. A 2005 MIT Research Fellow, she has worked for such global institutions as the United Nations, the U.S. Government, the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Planned Parenthood, Gay Men's Health Crisis and the International Women's Health Coalition. Her writing has been published by the New York Times, the Atlantic, The New Republic, Slate, the Boston Globe and the Christian Science Monitor. For more information please go to: www.miriamzoll.net
