Books + Articles

FOCUSED on MAMAS

American College of Nurse-Midwives (2013). Supporting Healthy and Normal Physiologic Childbirth: A Consensus Statement by ACNM, MANA, and NACPM. Journal of Perinatal Education, 22(1) 14-18.

American Civil Liberties Union (2017). Pregnancy-related health care in prison. https://www.aclu.org/pregnancy-related-health-care-prison

d’Oliveira, A. F. P. L., Diniz, S. G., & Schraiber, L. B. (2002). Violence against women in health-care institutions: an emerging problem. The Lancet, 359(9318), 1681-1685.

Davis, A. (1981) Women, Race and Class. New York: Random House.

Davis, D. A., & Craven, C. (2016). Feminist ethnography: Thinking through methodologies, challenges, and possibilities. Rowman & Littlefield.

Davis, E., & Pascali-Bonaro, D. (2010). Orgasmic birth: Your guide to a safe, satisfying, and pleasurable birth experience. Rodale.

Davis-Floyd, R. E. (2004). Birth as an American rite of passage: With a new preface. Univ of California Press.

Davis-Floyd, R. E., & Sargent, C. (1997). Childbirth and authoritative knowledge: Cross-cultural perspectives. University of California Press.

Davis-Floyd, R. (Ed.). (2009). Birth models that work. University of California Press.

Flavin, J. (2008). Our bodies, our crimes: The policing of women’s reproduction in America. NYU Press.

Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed, trans. Myra Bergman Ramos. New York: Continuum.

Gaskin, I. M. (2008). Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth: Updated with New Material. Bantam.

Gaskin, I. M. (2008). Maternal death in the United States: a problem solved or a problem ignored?. The Journal of perinatal education, 17(2), 9-13.

Gaskin, I. M. (2011). Birth matters: a midwife’s manifesta. New York: Seven Stories Press.

Ginsburg, F. D. & Rapp, R. (Eds.) (1995). Conceiving the New World Order. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Jordan, B. (1992). Birth in four cultures: A crosscultural investigation of childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States. Waveland Press.

Kitzinger, S. (2011). Rediscovering birth. Pinter & Martin Publishers.

Kitzinger, S. (2013). Birth & Sex: The power and the passion. Pinter & Martin Publishers.

Knapp, L. (1996). Childbirth satisfaction: the effects of internality and perceived control. The Journal of Perinatal Education5(4), 7-16.

Martin, E. (2001). The woman in the body: A cultural analysis of reproduction. Beacon Press.

Oparah, J. C., Arega, H., Hudson, D., Jones, L., & Oseguera, T. (2016). Battling over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis in California. Black Women Birthing Justice Report. Oakland, CA.

Oparah, J. C., & Bonaparte, A. D. (Eds.). (2016). Birthing justice: black women, pregnancy, and childbirth. Routledge.

Ross, L. & Solinger, R. (2017). Reproducive Justice: An Introduction. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Silliman, J., Ross, L., Gutiérrez, E., & Gerber, M. (2016). Undivided rights: Women of color organizing for reproductive justice. Haymarket Books.

WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, & United Nations Population Division (2015). Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990-2015: REPORT. http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/monitoring/maternal-mortality-2015/en/