Book Reviews

Fitter, Happier: The Eugenic Strain in Twentieth-Century Cancer Rhetoric. Lois Peters Agnew. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2024. 188 pages, $34.95 Paperback, $120 Hardcover, $34.95 eBook.

Publisher webpage: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817361341/fitter-happier/

Reviewed by Kari J. Lundgren (she/they), PhD, Communication Department, Oregon Institute of Technology

Posted August 2025

 

Sex and the Planet: What Opt-In Reproduction Could Do for the Globe. Margaret Pabst Battin. The MIT Press, 2024. 264 pages, $35.00 paperback.

Publisher webpage: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547987/sex-and-the-planet/

Reviewed by Sumaiya Sarker Sharmin (she/her), PhD Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition, Washington State University

Posted August 2025