Nonfiction books about reproductive health
This list covers OBGYN, hysterectomies, menstruation, menopause, endometriosis, contraception, fertility, and STIs.
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created by violet.booklover
last updated August, 2026
Not Just Painful Periods: Endometriosis, Fibroids and Menstrual Health
Dr. Liz Murray
The Empowered Hysterectomy: Your Complete Handbook to Diagnosis, Decision, and Treatment
Kameelah Phillips
A Bloody Scandal: How Medicine Fails Women in Pain
Evelyn Scott
Period: The Real Story of Menstruation
Kate Clancy
Labor: One Woman's Work
Mary Fariba Afsari
The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD
Shalene Gupta
Vagina Problems: Endometriosis, Painful Sex, and Other Taboo Topics
Lara Parker
Pear-Shaped: The Life Story of Your Uterus
Marlies Bongers
The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective
Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be
Kristin Liam Kali
Contraception: A Concise History (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Donna J. Drucker
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Jonathan Eig
Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health (Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century) (Volume 3)
Chris A. Barcelos
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion
Karen E. Bender
Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century) (Volume 4)
Krystale E. Littlejohn
Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
Ina Park
Pain and Prejudice: A Call to Arms for Women and Their Bodies
Gabrielle Jackson
My Broken Vagina: One Woman's Quest to Fix Her Sex Life, and Yours
Fran Bushe
Itâs Probably Nothing: Critical Conversations on the Womenâs Health Crisis (and How to Thrive Despite It)
Naga Munchetty
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
Lydia Reeder
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
Elinor Cleghorn
Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care
Tracey Lindeman
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Abby Norman
Genderqueer Menopause: Navigating Menopause for Trans, Gender-Nonconforming, Genderfluid, and Other Queer-Bodied Folx
Lasara Firefox Allen MSW
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism
Jen Gunter
Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation
All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
Elizabeth Comen
When Sex Hurts: Understanding and Healing Pelvic Pain
Andrew Goldstein
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Deirdre Cooper Owens
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
Rachel E. Gross
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