Reading List: Past, Present, Future
Future:
Robbie Davis-Floyd & Carolyn Sargent, eds, Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Jennifer Block’s Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
Michael Odent books & articles, like The Cesarean
Resources for the philosophy of music education course I’ll be teaching on-line, Spring 2009!
Current:
Marsden Wagner with Stephanie Gunning, Creating Your Birth Plan, which is much more than a birth plan book. This is a must read for all mothers regardless of birth venue.
ICAN’s Cesarean Voices (I can’t begin to tell you how important this book is)
Linda Layne’s Motherhood Lost: a feminist account of pregnancy loss in America: an incredible read if you like a more academic sociological/anthropological look at pregnancy loss.
Ongoing:
Toni Weschler’s Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
Marsden Wagner’s Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
Clarion - feel free to subscribe to ICAN through ICAN of Greater Missoula 
Journal of Singing
Health Magazine
Miscellaneous higher education publications
Recent:
Henci Goer & Rhonda Wheeler’s The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth
Lesley Regan’s Miscarriage: What Every Woman Needs to Know (it was recommended to me several times, but I didn’t find it particularly helpful)
Bruce Feiler’s Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (fascinating; take your time with this one)
LB Cowman’s Streams in the Desert: Hope for Hurting Hearts (Jim Reimann, ed.)
Harry Potter 6
Harry Potter 7
HeatherN3Boys said,
March 7, 2008 at 6:46 pm
PUSHED was INCREDIBLE. So incredible that we’re (Birth Matters Virginia) bringing Ms. Block to our area on March 17th. It made me sick at times, but gives me hope that we can turn around our maternity system, too.