A reproductive health-care library
Jessica
On Thursday 20th March we're hosting Mary Fissell to celebrate the publication of Abortion: a history, and we cannot wait.
Here's a vital and long -overdue book telling the stories of the many women who have always sought to end pregnancies, and long succeeded, from classical Greece to Roe v. Wade. It shows us anti-abortion in the context of greater political panics and works as a very welcome reminder of past struggles at a time when we're called to defend abortion rights once again.
Join us for an evening of knowledge, insight and rousing conversation! Tickets and more details are HERE.
Mary's book got us pondering over reproductive healthcare in a broader sense. What kind of care and interventions are included? Which groups of people have often been excluded from receiving different aspects of it?
Here's a wee, varied library, curated to offer many different starting points for learning about what reproductive health-care means in a wide variety of contexts, and for a variety of bodies..
Linked Books

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- Abortion : A History
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- Mary Fissell

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- Reproductive Justice : An Introduction
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- Ross, Loretta, Solinger, Rickie

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- Abortion Beyond the Law : Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion
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- Braine, Naomi

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- Womb : The Inside Story of Where We All Began
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- Hazard, Leah

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- V : An empowering celebration of the vulva and vagina
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- Schechter, Florence

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- Divided : Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare
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- Sowemimo, Dr Annabel

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- Supporting Queer Birth
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- AJ Silver

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- Fertility Technology
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- Drucker, Donna J.

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- Belly Woman : Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story
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- Black, Benjamin Oren

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- The Unfamiliar : A Queer Motherhood Memoir
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- Logan, Kirsty

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- It's Only Blood : Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation
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- Dahlqvist, Anna, Olsson, Alice E.

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- Pain and Prejudice : A call to arms for women and their bodies
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- Jackson, Gabrielle

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- The Menopause Manifesto : Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism
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- Gunter, Dr. Jennifer

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- The Parenthood Dilemma : Decisions in Our Age of Uncertainty
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- Rushton, Gina

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- Take My Hand : The inspiring and unforgettable BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick
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- Perkins-Valdez, Dolen

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- Rebel Bodies : A guide to the gender health gap revolution
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- Graham, Sarah