THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK IBD

Sinopsis

'Robert GuffeyâÇÖs The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook is weirder than parthenogenesis, weirder than the Republican Party, weirder than the fetishizing of pregnancy that suffuses our culture, weirder than all the back issues of Weird Tales combined. You will laugh, gasp, and scratch your head in pleasurable bemusement. I canâÇÖt recommend this tongue-in-cheek tour de force too highly.'-James Morrow, award-winning author of Only Begotten Daughter and Behold the ApeThe Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook is part novel, part fabulist encyclopedia. ItâÇÖs academic research thatâÇÖs shockingly close to the truth. The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook is a cabinet of wonders disguised as an informational guide for expectant mothers. Backed up with scientific-sounding footnotes from imaginary obstetricians, this book threatens to raise the paranoia of postmodern motherhood to a new level of absurdity.In the pages of this handbook you will learn about such chimerical illnesses as the Quantum Singularity Syndrome, Symmetrical Child Syndrome, Involuntary Dimensional Transits, Spontaneous Infant Combustion Syndrome, Black Hole Syndrome, Polyinfantalia, Shrinking Brain Syndrome, Muppetitis, Midwich Disease, and Oneirokyesis (known to some pediatricians as 'Dream Baby Disease').áBut fatal diseases are not the only purview of The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook. YouâÇÖll find out about the dangers of allowing your fetus in utero internet connection, how to use your child as an assassin, the growing problem of terrorism in the womb, in utero phone sex, the high weirdness of Origami Babies, the little known fact that Shakespeare created pregnancy, the mystery of the fetus-abducting Comprachicos, and a rare in-depth interview with Dracula about his attitudes regarding child raising, among many other illuminating tidbits of obscure but vital historical data.Ultimately, this book is a scathing satire on the unthinking commercialization of motherhood, fatherhood, and procreation in general.