The Invisible Epidemic: The Story of Women and AIDS

by Gena Corea. 1992. HarperCollins. New York.

Listed in The New York Times Book Review's "Notable Books of the Year: l992." December 6, l992.

The Boston Globe. November 8, l992:

Several of us from the [Chicago Women's AIDS] Project read this book and our vote is unanimous: Corea has told the story of women with AIDS with respect, intelligence and not a particle of voyeurism. We cried as we read, feeling relief that someone was telling the truth.

...Each vignette reads like the best fiction: rich, intimate, moving. But Corea has done more than simply tell stories. She has written the female equivalent of Randy Shilts' classic, And the Band Played On...

Lambda Book Report, December l992:

The Invisible Epidemic is a dangerous book...Her book, full of the danger of truth, must make its way onto the shelves of every health care facility, every AIDS-related organization, and every legislative body in this country. Read the book. Read it again.

Library Journal, November l992:

Sure to be a classic like Randy Shilts' And The Band Played On, Corea's work is highly recommended for all collections.

The Mother Machine: Reproductive Technologies from Artificial Insemination to the Artificial Womb

by Gena Corea. l985. Harper and Row. New York.

San Francisco Chronicle. July 14, l985:

...Corea's analysis is so thorough and so well-documented...The Mother Machine is to the politics of birth, reproduction and reproductive technologies what Susan Brownmiller's book, Against Our Will, was to rape: A lucid, compelling, relentless, visionary analysis that sounds a clarion call to which we should all listen.

SIECUS Report, Robert Francouer, May l986:

This is the most important, unique, disturbing, and challenging study of hu reproductive technologies I have encountered in the 20 years I have devoted to studying the scientific and social aspects of hu reproductive technologies...A meticulously researched, documented study...

Quotations from The Mother Machine are integrated with art work in The Holocaust Project by artist Judy Chicago and photographer Donald Wood, aided by artisans around the country. Opening at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, The Holocaust Project is a visual exploration of the meaning of the Holocaust for us today. The twenty-five hundred square foot exhibition is intended to travel for a number of years. The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated book written by Judy Chicago and published by Viking/Penguin.

German editions:

MutterMaschine. l986. Rotbuch Verlag GmbH. Berlin.

MutterMaschine. l988. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. Frankfurt am Main.

British edition:

The Mother Machine. l988. The Women's Press Ltd. London.

Japanese edition: l994.

The Hidden Malpractice: How American Medicine Mistreats Women

by Gena Corea. l985. Harper and Row. New York.

Earlier editions:

William Morrow & Co., Inc. l977.

Jove, l978.

Selected for "Editor's Choice" list of The New York Times Book Review, l977.

The New York Times. August 28, l977: "Massively researched...enormously impressive work."

American Medical News. October 17, l977: "Intelligent, solidly documented expose."

The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, l985: "[The Hidden Malpractice] remains the most stunning investigative journalism extant on American medicine's shameful history toward women."

Chapters in Books

Contributed by Gena Corea

• Introduction, Heard At Last, Mike Caple. 2006. Lulu Press.

• “Coming to the Wall,” in The Best of Write Action. 2003. Editor: Arlene Distler. Small Pond Press. Brattleboro, Vermont

• Chapters, “Carol Downer’s History-Bearing Brushes with the Law,” “Misconceptions,” and “Excerpt from The Hidden Malpractice,” in For Women Only! Your Guide to Health and Empowerment. Empowerment 1999. Editors: Gary Null and Barbara Sea. Seven Stories Press. New York.

• "The Subversive Sperm: ‘A False Strain of Blood’ ". l994. In Contemporary Issues in Bioethics. Editors: LeRoy Walters and Tom L. Beauchamp. Wadsworth Publishing Company.

• "Excerpt from The Mother Machine." l994. In Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics. Editor: Alison Jaggar. Westview Press.

• "Foreword." l993. In Misconceptions: Choice and the Construction of the New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies. Editors: Gwynne Basen, Margrit Eichler and Abby Lipp. Voyageur. Hull, Quebec, Canada.

• "The Reproductive Brothel." 1993. In Women's Studies Reader. Editor: University of Glamorgan Women's Studies Collective. Harvester Wheatsheaf. London.

• "Excerpt from The Mother Machine. l992. In Reproductive Technology and Hu Values. Editor: Kenneth D. Alpern. Oxford University Press. New York.

• "How the New Reproductive Technologies Will Affect All Women;" "Who May Have Children and Who May Not;" "Industrial Experimentation on 'Surrogate'Mothers;" "Junk Liberty;" and "Depo-Provera and the Politics of Knowledge." 1991. In Reconstructing Babylon: Essays on Women and Technology. Editor: H. Patricia Hynes. Indiana University Press. Bloomington and Indianapolis.

• "Testimony of Gena Corea." l991. In Surrogate Motherhood. Editor: Larry Gostin. Indiana University Press. Bloomington and Indianapolis.

• "I Have a Motherland." l991. In Issues in Feminism. Editor: Shelia Roth. Houghton Mifflin. (Previous edition: l980).

• "The New Reproductive Technologies." l990. In The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism. Editors: Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond. The Athene Series. Pergamon Press. Oxford. New York.

• "The Subversive Sperm: 'A False Strain of Blood.' " l990. In Ethical Issues in the New Reproductive Technologies. Editor: Richard Hull. Wadsworth Publishing Co.

• "Excerpt from The Mother Machine." l989. In Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Hu Sexuality. Editor: Robert Francoeur. The Dushkin Publiching Group, Inc. Guilford, Connecticut.

• "Meres porteuses et liberte 'toc'." l989. In L'Ovaire Dose: Les Nouvelles Methodes de Procreation. Editors: Catherine Lesterpt and Gatienne Doat. Syros Alternatives. Paris.

• "The Reproductive Brothel." l989. In Radical Voices. Editors: Renate D. Klein and Deborah Lynn Steinberg. The Athene Series. Pergamon Press. Oxford. New York.

• "Surrogacy: Making the Links." l989. In Infertility: Women Speak Out. Editor: Renate D. Klein. Pandora Press. London.

• "Industrialisierung der Reproduktion." l989. In . Gegen Gen-und-Reproduktionstechnologien. Editors: Paula Bradish, Erika Feyerabend, Ute Winkler. .offensive. Munich.

• "Conference de Gena Corea." 1988. In Sortir la Maternite du Laboratoire. Editors: Therese Mailloux, Marie Rinfret, Jocelyne Olivier and Lucie Desrochers. Conseil du statut de la femme. Quebec.

• "What the King Can Not See." l988. In Embryos, Ethics and Women's Rights. Editors: Elaine Hoff Baruch, Amadeo F. D'Adamo, Jr. and Joni Seager. Haworth Press. New York.

• "Women, class and genetic engineering." l988. In The Baby Machine. Editor: Jocelynne A. Scutt. McCulloch Publishing Pty Ltd. Carlton, Australia.

• "The Reproductive Brothel." l987. In Man-Made Women. Editors: Gena Corea, Jalna Hanmer, Betty Hoskins, Janice Raymond, Renate Duelli Klein, Helen B. Holmes, Madwa Kishwar, Robyn Rowland and Roberta Steinbacher. Indiana University Press. Bloomington and Indianapolis.

• "Le projet Manhattan de reproduction." l987. In De la Parente a l'Eugeneisme. Editor: Rosi Braidotti. Les Cahiers du Grif. Paris.

• "Report of a Survey of IVF Clinics in the USA." With Susan Ince. l987. In Made To Order: The Myth of Reproductive and Genetic Progress. Editors: Patricia Spallone and Deborah Lynn Steinberg. The Athene Series. Pergamon Press. Oxford. New York.

• "Die Zukunft unserer Welt." l987. In . gegen Gentechnik und Reproduktionstechnik. Editors: Michaela Brockskothen, Inge Hehr, Ruth Kuhn and Ulrike Myer. Kolner Volksblatt Verlags GmbH & Co. Cologne, Gery.

• "The Surrogate Mother Industry Exploits Women." l987. In Science and Technology: Opposing Viewpoints. Editor: Susan Bursell. Greenhaven Press, Inc. St. Paul, Minnesota.

• "Was der Konig Nicht Sehen Kann." l987. In Sexualpolitische Kontroversen. Editors: Frieden Pfafflin and Eberhard Schorsch. Ferdinand Enke Verlag. Stuttgart.

• "Das Manhattan-Projekt der Reproducktions-techniker." l987. In Schone Neue Mannerwelt. Editors: Aurelia Weikert, Johanna Riegler and Lesbeth N. Trallori. Verlag fur Gessellschaftskritik. Vienna, Austria.

• "Pharmakratie oder die Domestizierung der Frau." l985. In Gen-Technologies: Die Neue Soziale Waffe. Editors: Friedrich Hansen and Regine Kollek. Konkret Literatur Verlag. Hamburg.

• "Egg Snatchers." l984. In Test-Tube Women. Editors: Rita Arditti, Renate Klein and Shelley Minden. Pandora Press. London. Boston.

• "The Depo-Provera Weapon." l980. In Birth Control and Controlling Birth. Editors: Helen Holmes, Betty Hoskins and Michael Gross. Hua Press. New Jersey.