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Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health by Toni Weschler

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kellyofcali's review

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informative inspiring slow-paced

4.0

As someone starting to think about this stuff, I found this book super fascinating and it got me excited about fertility and women's health in general from a very science nerd perspective, haha. Bodies are crazy! Lots of good info as a woman in general, but especially one starting to consider Babies. My only big drawback was she is extremely skeptical of some form of birth control, to the point of being a bit fear-mongering and judgmental (I'm not 100% sure she's not right, but would have to do more research - either way, the tone turned me off a little at times).
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toni7tess's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

I’m pretty conflicted about this book. Overall, I think Taking Charge contains some really valuable information for all women. I do have a few issues with it though. 

What annoyed me most of all was the misrepresentation of the clitoris and its anatomy (eg. “pea-sized organ”, p. 38). The book’s tone occasionally gets quite condescending, which isn’t helped by frequent repetitions of content and generalizations. I was pretty shocked when the author called adolescents “an age group that, unfortunately, still believes among other things that you can’t get pregnant the first time.” (p. 343) This might be partly due to personal taste, but it also felt very old-fashioned. A lot of content is not only outdated (like assuming a serious, long-term relationship = only marriage, p. 395, p.14), but also heteronormative. 

I would have also preferred a more objective approach to different types of birth control and for the author to properly cite all of her sources as she is using them and not just in a bibliography at the end. The layout of the 20th anniversary edition also suffers quite a few consistency errors (eg. page numbers and names, especially in the appendices). 

I would recommend the book, but only to somebody who is willing to read it critically.
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