Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading

Books, articles, and authors recommended in our semi-monthly Newsletters will also be included in these lists.
Feel free to contact us with recommendations!

Books

A Complicated Choice: Making Space for Grief and Healing in the Pro-Choice Movement (Katey Zeh, 2022)

Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (Krystale E. Littlejohn, 2021)

New Handbook for a Post-Roe America: The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support (Robin Marty, 2021)

The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion (Diana Greene Foster, 2021)

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (ed. Annie Finch, 2020)

Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to get an Abortion in America (David S. Cohen & Carole Joffe, 2020)

My Body, My Choice (Robin Stevenson, 2019)

Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (Loretta Ross & Rickie Solinger, 2017)

Reproductive Rights and Wrongs (Betsy Hartmann, 2016)

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice (Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross, & Elena Gutiérrez, 2016)

How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex (Cristina Page, 2006)

Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (Katha Pollitt, 2015)

Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women (Barbara Gurr, 2014)

Reproductive Justice Briefing Book: A Primer on Reproductive Justice and Social Change (82 pages online - 46 separate writings)

Recommended Authors and Writers

These authors have all spoken powerfully on the topic of reproductive rights and reproductive justice.

Ijeoma Oluo

Heather McGhee

Dr. Loretta J. Ross