Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

by Angela Garbes

Control over our own bodies is an essential freedom, but it’s one women have never been able to take for granted.

True female reproductive health, which is the foundation of everyone’s health, requires that the social systems in which we live allow us to make informed choices about what is best for each of us.

How the pressure, intentional or not, that we place on new mothers—not just to breast-feed but to enjoy pregnancy, to give birth a certain way, to “bounce back,” to be happy—is unnecessarily stressful and harmful.