Women's Health Bibliography
The following sources do not necessarily reflect the Center's position or values. These sources, however, are excellent resources for familiarizing oneself with the all sides of the issue.
- Baruch, Elaine, Amadeo F. D’Adamo, and Joni Seager. Embryos, Ethics, and Women’s Rights: Exploring the New Reproductive Technologies. New York: Haworth Press, 1988.
- Blank, Robert H. Mother and Fetus: Changing Notions of Maternal Responsibility. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.
- Callahan, Joan C. (ed.). Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996.
- Chandra, Prabha S., Helen Herrman, Jane E. Fisher, Marianne Kastrup, Unaiza Niaz, Marta Rondon, and Ahmed Okasha. Contemporary Topics in Women’s Mental Health: Global Perspectives in a Changing Society. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Clarke, Adele E. Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and the Problems of Sex. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
- Cohen, Cynthia B. New Ways of Making Babies: The Case of Egg Donation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996.
- Costa, Mariarosa Dalla. Gynocide: Hysterectomy, Capitalist Patriarchy, and the Medical Abuse of Women. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2007.
- Dennerstein, Lorraine, and Margaret M. Baltes, (eds.). Women’s Rights and Bioethics. Ogdensberg, NY: Renouf Publishing, 2001.
- Dodds, Susan. Linking Visions: Feminist Bioethics, Human Rights, and the Developing World. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
- Duden, Barbara. Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
- Evans, Debra. The Christian Woman’s Guide to Personal Health Care. Wheaton: Crossway, 1999.
- Evans, Debra. Without Moral Limits: Women, Reproduction, and Medical Technology. Wheaton: Crossway, 2000.
- Faden, Ruth R., Gail Geller, and Madison Powers, (eds.). AIDS, Women, and the Next Generation: Towards a Morally Acceptable Public Policy for HIV Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Faden, Ruth R., and Nancy E. Kass, (eds.). HIV, AIDS and Childbearing: Public Policy, Private Lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
- Farley, Margaret A. Compassionate Respect: A Feminist Approach to Medical Ethics and Other Questions. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2002.
- Foster, Illysa R. and Jon Lasser. Professional Ethics in Midwifery Practice. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Barlett, 2010.
- Gibbon, Sahra. Breast Cancer Genes and the Gendering of Knowledge. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
- Gostin, Lawrence O. Surrogate Motherhood: Politics and Privacy. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990.
- Gupta, Jyotsna. New Reproductive Technologies, Women’s Health and Autonomy: Indo-Dutch Studies on Development Alternatives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2000.
- Harwood, Karey A. The Infertility Treadmill: Feminist Ethics, Personal Choice, and the Use of Reproductive Technologies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
- Holmes, Helen Bequaert, and Laura M. Purdy, (eds.). Feminist Perspectives in Medical Ethics. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992.
- Kohn, Tamara. Extending the Boundaries of Care: Medical Ethics and Caring Practices. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 1999.
- Komesaroff, Paul A., (ed.). Trouble Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.
- Kuhse, Helga. Caring: Nurses, Women and Ethics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 1997.
- Kukla, Rebecca. Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers’ Bodies. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
- Lauritzen, Paul. Pursuing Parenthood: Ethical Issue in Assisted Reproduction. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993.
- Lay, Mary M., Cynthia Myntti, Laura J. Gurak, and Clare Gravon. Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
- Löwy, Ilana. Preventive Strikes: Women, Precancer, and Prophylactic Surgery. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Macklin, Ruth. Surrogates and Other Mothers: The Debates over Assisted Reproduction. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1994.
- Mahowald, Mary Briody. Bioethics and Women: Across the Life Span. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Mahowald, Mary Briody. Genes, Women, Equality. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Meredith, Sheena. Policing Pregnancy: The Law and Ethics of Obstetric Conflict. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2006.
- Meyer, Cheryl. The Wandering Uterus: Politics and the Reproductive Rights of Women. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
- Parks, Jennifer A. No Place Like Home? Feminist Ethics and Home Health Care. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003.
- Petchesky, Rosalind, Karen Judd, and IRRRAG, (eds.). Negotiating Reproductive Rights: Women’s Perspectives across Centuries and Cultures. New York: Zed Books, 1998.
- Petersen, Kerry. Intersections: Women on Law, Medicine and Technology. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 1997.
- Purdy, Laura Martha. Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.
- Raymond, Janice G. Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle Over Women’s Freedom. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
- Reist, Melinda Tankard. Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics. North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex Press, 2006.
- Rodin, Judith and Aila Collins (eds.). Women and New Reproductive Technologies: Medical, Psychosocial, Legal, and Ethical Dilemmas. Hillsdale, NJ: Psychology Press, 1991.
- Rosser, Susan V. (ed.), Diversity and Women’s Health. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Roth, Rachel. Making Women Pay: The Hidden Costs of Fetal Rights. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.
- Rothenberg, Karen H. and Elizabeth Jean Thomson. Women and Prenatal Testing: Facing the Challenges of Genetic Technology. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1994.
- Scott, Rosamund. Rights, Duties, and the Body: Law and Ethics of the Maternal-Fetal Conflict. Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2002.
- Scully, Jackie Leach, Laurel E. Baldwin-Ragaven, and Petya Fitzpatrick, (eds.). Feminist Bioethics: At the Center, on the Margins. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
- Sherwin, Susan. No Longer Patient: Feminist Ethics and Health Care. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
- Sherwin, Susan. The Politics of Women’s Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998.
- Sherwin, Susan, and Barbara Parish. Women, Medicine, Ethics and the Law. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2002.
- Shildrick, Margrit, and Roxanne Mykitiuk (eds.). Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2005.
- Simonstein, Frida (ed.). Reprogen-Ethics and the Future of Gender: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. New York: Spring Publishing, 2009.
- Sperling, Daniel. Management of Post-Mortem Pregnancy: Legal and Philosophical Aspects. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2006.
- Tong, Rosemarie. Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Applications. Boudler, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
- Tong, Rosemarie. Globalizing Feminist Bioethics: Crosscultural Perspectives. Darby, PA: Diane Publishing, 2003.
- Tubert, Silvia, and Anthony Molino, (ed.), and Mariano Peyrou, (trans.). Women Without a Shadow: Maternal Desire and Assisted Reproductive Technologies. London: Free Association Books, 2000.
- Vigen, Aana Marie. Women, Ethics, and Inequality in U.S. Healthcare: “To Count Among the Living.” New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006.
- Walker, Margaret Urban. Mother Time: Women, Aging, and Ethics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
- Walters, D. Campbell. Just Take It Out!: The Ethics and Economics of Cesarean Section and Hysterectomy. Mount Vernon, IL: Topiary Publishing, 1999.
- Wangila, Mary Nyangweso. Female Circumcision: The Interplay of Religion, Culture and Gender in Kenya. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2007.
- Wolf, Susan M. Feminism & Bioethics: Beyond Reproduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Gender Selection and Gendercide
- Hvistendahl, Mara. Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men. New York: PublicAffairs, 2012.
For related materials, also consult the Reproductive Ethics Bibliography.
Updated January 2012






