Birthing Justice

There is a global crisis in maternal health care for black women. In the United States, black women are over three times more likely to perish from pregnancy-related complications than white women; their babies are half as likely to survive the first year. Many black women experience policing, coercion, and disempowerment during pregnancy and childbirth and are disconnected from alternative birthing traditions. This book places black women's voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternity system and foregrounds black women's agency in the emerging birth justice movement. Mixing scholarly, activist, and personal perspectives, the book shows readers how they too can change lives, one birth at a time.

• Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century)
• Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
• Where's the Mother?: Stories from a Transgender Dad
• Battling Over Birth: Black Women and the Maternal Health Care Crisis
• Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers
• Cut, Stapled, and Mended: When One Woman Reclaimed Her Body and Gave Birth on Her Own Terms After Cesarean
• The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother
• Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
• LISTEN TO ME GOOD: THE STORY OF AN ALABAMA MIDWIFE (WOMEN & HEALTH C&S PERSPECTIVE)
• Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others