I realize this is a pretty specific category but this thread never ceases to amaze me with niche recommendations.
I am starting a new public health job surrounding maternal health care. Looking to learn more about maternal mortality, barriers to care, and general disparities. Hoping this can be more public health and sociology oriented, not specific to parenting or perinatal self-help books.
I have read Invisible Women, which briefly touches on it but curious if there is anything more specific to disparities amongst women and birthing populations.
Full disclosure, I’m a cis-male with no kids and no intention to have kids. I will not bring any lived experience to the discussion so want to hear from those that have!
Edit: Black maternal health specifically, if possible.
by ExtraPickles262
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I don’t know if this relevant but there are two books on the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction which might be of interest.
Matrescence by Lucy Jones
Eve by Cat Bohannan
– Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy by Angela Garbes
– Reproductive Justice: An Introduction by Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger
– Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women by Lyz Lenz
– Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Maternal Subjectivity by Alison Stone
– Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and Motherhood by Jennifer Hendricks
– MOTHERHOOD: FEMINISM’S UNFINISHED BUSINESS by Eliane Glaser
– Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez
One of the essays in THICK by Tressie MacMillan Cottom is relative – highly recommend