General resources for women’s health:
The National Women’s Health Network
Feminist Women’s Health Center
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective/ Our Bodies Ourselves
http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org
Planned Parenthood
http://www.plannedparenthood.org
Medline Plus
The Mayo Clinic
Scarleteen: (Great website with information on contraception and sexual health):
The Center for Menstrual Cycle Research (Jerilynn Prior):
Gilian Sanson (great Australian women’s health writer and activist with excellent website):
William H. Parker with Rachel Parker, A Gynecologist’s Second Opinion, New York: Plume, 2003
On Contraceptive History:
Linda Gordon, The Moral Property of Women, Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Robert Jutte, Contraception: A History, Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2008.
Carole R. McCann, Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body, New York: Random House, 1997.
Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Loretta Ross and Elena R. Gutierrez, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize For Reproductive Justice, Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2004.
Rickie Solinger, Pregnancy and Power, New York and London: New York University Press, 2005.
Andrea Tone, Devices and Desires, New York: Hill and Wang, 2001.
On The Pill and the History of the Pill:
Read:
Jane Bennett and Alexandra Pop, The Pill: Are You Sure It’s For You?, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin, 2008.
Richard P. Dickey, Managing Contraceptive Pill Patients, Dallas, TX: EMIS Medical Publishers, 2007.
Carl Djerassi, The Man’s Pill: Reflections on the 50th Birthday of the Pill, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Lara Marks, Sexual Chemistry, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001.
Barbara Seaman, The Doctors’ Case Against the Pill, Alameda CA: Hunter House, 1995.
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins, On the Pill, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Watch:
The Pill, The American Experience, PBS, Chana Gazit, director, 2003.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/
The Pill, Erna Buffie, director, 1999.
On Menstruation:
Elizabeth Arveda Kissling, Capitalizing on the Curse: The Business of Menstruation, Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.
Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb, Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation, Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1988.
Janice Delaney, Mary Jan Lupton and Emily Toth, The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1976.
Karen Houppert, The Curse, New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1999.
Laura Kipnis, The Female Thing: Dirt, Envy, Sex and Vulnerability, New York: Vintage, 2007.
Sophie Laws, Issues of Blood: The Politics of Menstruation, London: The MacMillan Press, LTD, 1990.
Emily Martin, The Woman in the Body, Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.
The Museum of Menstruation:
Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Berkeley CA: Seal Press, 2002.
On Menstrual Supression:
Susan Rako, The Blessings of the Curse: No More Periods? Backinprint.com, 2006.
On Fertility Awareness Method (FAM):
Katie Singer, The Garden Of Fertility, New York: Avery, 2004.
Toni Weschler, Taking Charge of Your Fertility, New York: HarperCollins, 2006
Cycle Savvy, New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
On The Male Pill:
Nelly Oudshoorn, The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003.
On Hormones and the Environment:
Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, New York: Basic Books, 2007.
On Global Reproductive Justice:
Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World, New York: Penguin Press, 2009.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half The Sky, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Laura Eldridge 