books about medical misogyny, policing pregnancy and the afab body
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last updated August, 2026
Just Pills: The Extraordinary Story of a Revolution in Abortion Care
Rebecca Kelliher
Hysterical: Why We Need to Talk About Women, Hormones, and Mental Health
Eleanor Morgan
Exposed: The Hidden History of the Pelvic Exam
Wendy Kline
Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care
Shelley Sella MD
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service
Laura Kaplan
Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
Jennifer Block
It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
Karen Tang
Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy (Health, Society, and Inequality)
Andrea Becker
Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Contemporary Classics)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women―And What We Can Do About It
Gabrielle Jackson
Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
Jen Gunter
All In Her Head: How Gender Bias Harms Women's Mental Health
Misty Pratt
Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care
Tracey Lindeman
Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America
Kathleen M. Crowther
A Bloody Scandal: How Medicine Fails Women in Pain
Evelyn Scott
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
Elinor Cleghorn
The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women
Anushay Hossain
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
Elizabeth Comen
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