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Afraid of the light
\"Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber. When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself literally driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time, engulfing his life in the process.\"--Publisher.
A Not-So-Silent Scream: Gothic and the US Abortion Debate
In 1871 the New York Times ran an exposé on illicit abortion under the headline \"The Evil of the Age.\" An undercover investigation by the newspaper revealed that abortionists continued to sell their services in New York City with little interference from authorities despite an 1869 state law prohibiting abortion at any point in pregnancy. As investigative journalism \"The Evil of the Age\" is nonfiction, but it resembles gothic fiction in both form and content: it promises to frighten and appall readers; it uncovers the \"hideous truth\" about secret crimes; it uses lurid description to simultaneously express moral outrage and excite fascination with the illicit activity it depicts; and it refuses to name the unmentionable topic it nonetheless discusses in colorful detail for more than two full columns. The nonfiction gothic narrative that unfolds in \"The Evil of the Age\" portrays abortionists as depraved villains who prey on female victims in viceridden urban spaces.
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A spark of light : a novel
\"[A] novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic, its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages, he glances at it, and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and the next few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters ... [T]his is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day\"-- Provided by publisher.
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'Marvellous Secrets': Birth control in European short fiction, 1150-1650
Medieval and Renaissance tales are remarkable for their frank discussion of sexual practices, including birth control. Italian and French writings are the most explicit. Contraception and abortions are often treated as 'secrets', esoteric practices acquired from experts. The concealment of pregnancy is presented as an alternative form of birth control, often used after the others have failed. In the narratives, the use of birth control is mostly confined to premarital relations, although contraception by married women appears at the end of the period in a few French examples.
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25 Movies to watch out for at SXSW Film
After checking out the sheer enthusiasm of the early Silicon Valley enthusiasts, three T.I. employees started Compaq Computer at a Houston diner in 1982, intending to build a portable PC that would take dead aim at IBM. When a large company purchases their building, the DBA folks (including co-founder and \"Goodnight\" director Matt Conboy) decide to film all of the business drama and ear-splitting bands that filled the weeks leading up to the space's final shows. 10 p.m., Stateside.
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