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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Melinda Gates · 288 pages
Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey Across the Life Line
Abby Johnson · 288 pages
Abby Johnson quit her job in October 2009. That simple act became a national news story because Abby was director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who, not long after assisting in an actual abortion procedure for the first time, crossed the line to join the Coalition for Life. What happened in that clinic to cause this Planned Parenthood leader and Employee of the Year to take such drastic
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor
Susan Wicklund, Alan Kesselheim · 281 pages
A female physician describes her dedication to helping women through the abortion experience, the dangers she faced as an abortion provider, and her thoughts on the abortion debate.
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World
Michelle Goldberg · 259 pages
In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism by the author of the New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming, Michelle Goldberg exposes the global war on womens reproductive rights and its disastrous and unreported consequences for the future of global developmentWomens rights are often treated as mere appendages to great questions of war, peace, poverty, and economic development. But as
What I Thought I Knew: A Memoir
Alice Eve Cohen · 194 pages
A personal and medical odyssey beyond anything most women would believe possibleAt age forty-four, Alice Eve Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she was engaged to an inspiring man, joyfully raising her adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Alice tells her fiance that shes never been happier. And then the stomach pains begin. In her unflinchingly hone
The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood
Belle Boggs · 242 pages
"A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertility"--Back cover.
How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran · 313 pages
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with l
Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story
Peter Bagge · 72 pages
Portrays the life of Margaret Sanger, a birth control activist and advocate for female reproductive rights, in graphic novel format. Includes an 18 page section at the back ("Who's who and what's what" with photographs of those concerned).
Misconception: One Couple's Journey from Embryo Mix-up to Miracle Baby
Paul Morell, Shannon Morell, Angela Elwell Hunt
A Midwife's Story
Sheryl Feldman, Penny Armstrong · 194 pages
Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta
Ina May Gaskin · 276 pages
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth--which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections--and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. Up
Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth
Jenny McCarthy · 178 pages
The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir
Patricia Harman · 290 pages
In Patricia Harman’s exam room, patients open their hearts. Harman, a nurse-midwife, manages a private practice with her husband, an ob-gyn, in Torrington, West Virginia—a practice now providing only gynecological exams and first trimester care because they’ve been forced by escalating malpractice insurance costs to give up delivering babies. Despite this, the women who sit before her receive nurt
The Hospital by the River
Catherine Hamlin, John Little · 320 pages
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Jonathan Eig · 408 pages
Immersed in radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes, this is the fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
Tina Cassidy · 312 pages
"Starting with a lively, personal introduction in which Tina Cassidy describes her grandmother's, her mother's, and her own experiences of giving birth, readers are taken on an astounding journey into the history of childbirth. From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we are born the way
Why Pro-Life?: Caring for the Unborn and Their Mothers
Randy Alcorn · 140 pages
Grounded in medical science and psychological studies, Alcorn offers answers to the central issues of the abortion discussion in a concise, informative manner.
Inconceivable: A Medical Mistake, the Baby We Couldn't Keep, and Our Choice to Deliver the Ultimate Gift
Carolyn Savage, Sean Savage
Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth
Grantly Dick-Read · 352 pages
Heart and Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
Elizabeth Davis · 287 pages
This manual for lay midwives includes chapters on prenatal care; problems in pregnancy, labor, and birth; and postpartum care.
Full Frontal Feminism
Jessica Valenti · 275 pages
Newly revised and updated, the #1 must-read book for a new generation of feminists who refuse to accept anything less than equality and justice for all women Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism embodies the forward-looking messages that bestselling author Jessica Valenti propagated as founder of the popular website, Feministing.com. Smart and relatable, the book serves as a
Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choices, and Take Back the Birth Experience
Ricki Lake, Abby Epstein, Jacques Moritz · 238 pages
The national C-section rate is at an all-time high of 31 percent. Are all these C-sections necessary, or are some of them done simply for the sake of convenience? Inductions seem to be the norm, but are they always needed? Today, expectant mothers are often left feeling powerless, as their instincts are replaced by drugs and routine medical procedures. What you are about to discover is that you ha
Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
Sarafina El-Badry Nance · 336 pages
Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
Sandra Steingraber · 342 pages