Tag: Donors

Inconceivable Super Sperm Donors, Off-the-Grid Insemination, and Unconventional Family Planning


Free Download Inconceivable: Super Sperm Donors, Off-the-Grid Insemination, and Unconventional Family Planning by Valerie Bauman
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1454951435 | 304 pages | PDF | 5.88 Mb
Inconceivablecombines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms. As an active participant in this community, Valerie Bauman uses her own story as a lens into this movement of people attempting to dodge the costly and often discriminatory world of sperm banks and fertility clinics. Inconceivableis a window into the unfair legal, financial, and medical entanglements that compel many single women and LGBTQ+ couples to take their fertility into their own hands.

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Donors, Democracy and Development in Africa Western Aid and Political Repression (EPUB)


Free Download Mark Simpson, "Donors, Democracy and Development in Africa: Western Aid and Political Repression"
English | ISBN: 3031749162 | 2024 | 369 pages | EPUB | 640 KB
Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda have figured prominently in the post- Cold War relations between Western donors and Sub-Saharan Africa. Their ‘new leaders’ were embraced by Western countries as the antithesis of former Cold War-era African strongmen, and their countries became ‘donor darlings’, benefitting from regular and significant inflows of Western development assistance. To the dismay of African democracy activists and human rights defenders, such aid enabled the regimes in these countries to strengthen the repressive political and economic governance systems over which they preside.

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