Download or read book Infertility Rites written by Mary Melfi and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 1991 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infertility rites is an intimate account of one woman's agonizing experience to carry a pregnancy to full term. Through Nina DiFiore's numerous miscarriages, Mary Melfi analyzes how much women's self-image is linked to their fertility; for Nina, an artist, this is even more acute as she is of Italian origin, a culture which idolizes the role of the mother.