Books
- War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black
- Contraception and Abortion in 19th Century America by Janet Farrell Brodie
- The Brink of Being: Talking about Miscarriage by Julia Bueno
- Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore
- Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy
- Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America by Ellen Chesler
- Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
- The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
- Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby by Deborah L. Davis
- It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine
- Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America by Sara Dubow
- Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn by Barbara Duden
- For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts’ Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
- Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
- Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank by Randi Hutter Epstein
- Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi
- The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child by Paula S. Fass
- The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion by Diana Greene Foster
- The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America by Lara Freidenfelds
- Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy by Angela Garbes
- What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color by Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang
- Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century by Janet Golden
- Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood by Michele Goodwin
- The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain
- Empty Arms: Coping After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Death by Sherokee Ilse
- High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected by Chavi Eve Karkowsky
- Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America 1760–1820 by Susan E. Klepp
- Unspeakable Losses: Healing from Miscarriage, Abortion, and Other Pregnancy Loss by Kim Kluger-Bell
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
- The All New Don’t Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate by George Lakoff
- Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think by George Lakoff
- Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America by Linda L. Layne
- Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America 1750–1950 by Judith Walzer Leavitt
- Interrogating Pregnancy Loss: Feminist Writings on Abortion, Miscarriage, and Stillbirth by Emily R. M. Lind and Angie Deveau
- Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South by Jenny M. Luke
- Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood by Kristin Luker
- The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction by Emily Martin
- New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support by Robin Marty
- America and the Pill: A History of Politics, Peril, and Liberation by Elaine Tyler May
- Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May
- From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology by Deborah Kuhn McGregor
- Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos by Lynn M. Morgan
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
- Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom by Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
- Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights by Katha Pollitt
- Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America by Rayna Rapp
- When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867–1973 by Leslie J. Reagan
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy E. Roberts
- Reproductive Justice: An Introduction by Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger
- Abortion after Roe by Johanna Schoen
- Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South by Marie Jenkins Schwartz
- Modern Motherhood: An American History by Jodi Vandenberg-Daves
- The Midwife Said Fear Not: A History of Midwifery in the United States by Helen Varney and Joyce Beebe Thompson
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
- Lying In: A History of Childbirth in America by Richard W. and Dorothy C. Wertz
- Your Guide to Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: Hope and Healing When You’re No Longer Expecting by Kate White
- Stillbirth and the Law by Jill Wieber Lens, forthcoming
- Lost: Miscarriage in 19th Century America by Shannon Withycombe
- Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present by Mary Ziegler
- After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate by Mary Ziegler
- I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, A Movement by Jessica Zucker
Articles
- Dias, Elizabeth. “When Does Life Begin?” New York Times, December 21, 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/31/us/human-life-begin.html.
- Donley, Greer, and Jill Wieber Lens. “Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, & Subjective Fetal Personhood.” Vanderbilt Law Review 75 (June 1, 2022): 1649–727. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125492.
- Eldeib, Duaa, Nadia Sussman, Liz Moughon, and Adriana Gallardo. “Stillbirths: When Babies Die Before Taking Their First Breath.” ProPublica, 2022. https://www.propublica.org/series/stillbirths.
- Markin, Rayna, and Sigal Zilcha-Mano. “Cultural Processes in Psychotherapy for Perinatal Loss: Breaking the Cultural Taboo Against Perinatal Grief.” Psychotherapy 55, no. 1 (March 2018): 20–26. https://doi.org/10.1037/pst0000122.
- Parsons, Kate. “Feminist Reflections on Miscarriage, In Light of Abortion.” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 3, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.3138/ijfab.3.1.1.
- Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack. “Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in the Politics of Reproduction.” Feminist Studies 13, no. 2 (Summer 1987): 263–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/3177802.
- Reagan, Leslie J. “From Hazard to Blessing to Tragedy: Representations of Miscarriage in Twentieth-Century America.” Feminist Studies 29, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 356–78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3178514.
Podcasts
- Evans, Robert, and Dr. Kaveh Hoda. “Part One: The Father of Gynecology.” Behind the Bastards. July 12, 2022. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-the-father-of-gynecology-99304866/.
- Freeman, Erica. Sisters in Loss. https://sistersinloss.com/.
- Masarik, Elizabeth Garner, and Sarah Handley-Cousins. “Abortion and Birth Control before Roe v. Wade: 19th & 20th c. Family Limitation.” Dig: A History Podcast, January 7, 2018. https://digpodcast.org/2018/01/07/before-roe-v-wade/.
- Masarik, Elizabeth Garner, and Sarah Handley-Cousins. “Miscarriage in 19th Century America.” Dig: A History Podcast, February 10, 2019. https://digpodcast.org/2019/02/10/miscarriage-nineteenth-century-america/.
- Masarik, Elizabeth Garner, and Marissa Rhodes. “Early American Family Limitation.” Dig: A History Podcast, April 25, 2021. https://digpodcast.org/2021/04/25/early-american-family-limitation-2/.
- Matthews, Susan. “Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade.” Slate, June 1, 2022. https://slate.com/podcasts/slow-burn/s7/roe-v-wade.