Canada English rights to Claire Horn’s WOMEN AT REST

Legal expert in reproductive health law Dr Claire Horn’s Women at Rest: The Legacy of Rest as Cure, Control and Commodity, a historical and contemporary look at how rest and its refusal, rest as a cure, and rest as a punishment formed the fabric of our society, from the “rest cure” that drove Virginia Woolf to despair, to the continued use of bed rest in pregnancy, to the commodification of rest in wellness culture as a consumer product even while it is denied to marginalized women, in the vein of Elinor Cleghorn’s Unwell Women, to Amanda Betts at S&S Canada by Martha Webb at CookeMcDermid (Canada).