Like A Virgin

New Scientist’s Top 10 books of 2012

BBC Radio 4 Pick of the Week documentary

Short-listed—Salon Transmission Prize 2013

Featured on BBC Radio4 Women’s Hour

In Like a Virgin, biologist and science writer Aarathi Prasad examines inconceivable ideas about conception, from a Renaissance recipe for creating a child (bury semen in manure for forty days) to the search for a real-life virgin mother in the 1950s. She then takes us to maverick, cutting-edge labs that are today inventing sex-less reproduction, from manufactured eggs to artificial wombs and beyond. Like a Virgin delivers an astonishing exploration of the mysteries of sex and evolution – past, present, and future.