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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,189 ratings — published 1997
The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,613 ratings — published 2016
The Birth Partner (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,236 ratings — published 1989
When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.45 — 300 ratings — published 2004
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.56 — 567 ratings — published 2016
Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities (KAIROS)
by (shelved 8 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.31 — 160 ratings — published
The Radical Doula Guide: A Political Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.48 — 77 ratings — published 2012
The Labor Progress Handbook: Early Interventions to Prevent and Treat Dystocia (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.58 — 370 ratings — published 2000
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.36 — 32,983 ratings — published 2003
Spiritual Midwifery (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,643 ratings — published 1975
The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.54 — 174 ratings — published 2016
Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.67 — 84 ratings — published 2015
Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.55 — 473 ratings — published 2017
Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
by (shelved 6 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.27 — 51 ratings — published 2012
Why Did No One Tell Me This?: The Doulas' (Honest) Guide for Expectant Parents
by (shelved 6 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,109 ratings — published
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,698 ratings — published 1972
Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.56 — 102 ratings — published
Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood―and Trusting Yourself and Your Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,504 ratings — published
The Doula Book: How A Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have A Shorter, Easier, And Healthier Birth (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by (shelved 6 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,313 ratings — published 2002
Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,242 ratings — published 1998
Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.33 — 103 ratings — published
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,292 ratings — published 1958
Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.45 — 913 ratings — published
Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.51 — 4,789 ratings — published 2018
The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as birthwork)
avg rating 3.46 — 3,624 ratings — published
Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.25 — 48 ratings — published 2014
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.38 — 228 ratings — published 2019
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.35 — 252 ratings — published 2004
The Natural Pregnancy Book: Herbs, Nutrition, and Other Holistic Choices (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.08 — 744 ratings — published 1997
The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth: A Complete Labor and Childbirth Companion for Parents to Be (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as birthwork)
avg rating 3.62 — 371 ratings — published
The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.08 — 364 ratings — published 2016
African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published 1998
Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,922 ratings — published 2007
Babies Are Not Pizzas: They're Born, Not Delivered (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,048 ratings — published 2019
Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.23 — 177 ratings — published 2005
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide (medically updated)
by (shelved 4 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,216 ratings — published 1984
Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.35 — 159 ratings — published 2011
Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,992 ratings — published 2005
Listen to Me Good: The Story of an Alabama Midwife (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.09 — 293 ratings — published 1996
Holistic Midwifery: A Comprehensive Textbook for Midwives in Homebirth Practice, Vol. 1: Care During Pregnancy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.56 — 305 ratings — published 1995
You or Someone You Love: Reflections from an Abortion Doula (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.37 — 638 ratings — published
You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.44 — 5,685 ratings — published 2020
Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.24 — 121 ratings — published 2018
The Gentle Art of Newborn Family Care: A Guide for Postpartum Doulas and Caregivers (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.27 — 22 ratings — published 2012
The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.24 — 346 ratings — published 2019
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The Wisdom and Science of Gentle Choices in Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,309 ratings — published 2005
The Full Spectrum Doula: The Handbook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published
Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 3.90 — 42 ratings — published
Birth Ambassadors: Doulas and the Re-Emergence of Woman-Supported Birth in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.00 — 63 ratings — published 2014
Herbal Healing for Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as birthwork)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,200 ratings — published 1993
