Nonfiction books about pregnancy and childbirth. Emphasis on intersectionality!
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last updated March, 2026
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
Lucy Jones
The Birth Book: An OB-GYN's Guide to Demystifying Labor and Delivery
Jennifer Lincoln
High Risk: Stories of Pregnancy, Birth, and the Unexpected
Chavi Eve Karkowsky
Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section
Rachel Somerstein
Pregnant While Black: Advancing Justice for Maternal Health in America
Monique Rainford
Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization
Khiara M. Bridges
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion
Karen E. Bender
Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities (KAIROS)
Alana Apfel
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth
DĂĄna-Ain Davis
So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth
Aracelis Girmay
Pregnancy Test (Object Lessons)
Karen Weingarten
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
Barbara Ehrenreich
Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free
Sabia Wade
Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Julia Chinyere Oparah
Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America
Irin Carmon
The Doulas: Radical Care for Pregnant People
Mary Mahoney
Why Did No One Tell Me This?: The Doulas' (Honest) Guide for Expectant Parents
Natalia Hailes
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
Leah Hazard
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Angela Garbes
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