Publications in the Study of Pregnancy & Birth
This is a list of works relevant to a variety of fields in the study of pregnancy & birth in the arts, humanities, psychology, and social sciences. regularly updates this list. To suggest a new title, please see our Contact Information.
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Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition (1958). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press; 2nd edition, 1998.
Balabanoff, Doreen. "Birthspace, light and embodied experience: insights from the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and James J. Gibson." Iterations Issue 3 (2016). 12-19.
Balabanoff, Doreen. "Color, light, and birth space design: An integrative review." Color Research and Application - Special Issue: Environmental Color Design 48.5 (2023). 413-432.
Balabanoff, Doreen. Disrupting the status quo to create the mindful birth space - spaces that 'sing'! London, UK: Routledge eBooks, 2022.
Balabanoff, Doreen. "Light and Embodied Experience in the Reimagined Birth Environment," PhD diss., (University College Dublin, 2017).
Balabanoff, Doreen. "The Inappropriate Birthing Body and How the Birth Environment is Implicated." In Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity. Edited by Rachel App Buller and Charles Reeve. Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press, 2019. 251-290.
Balsam, Rosemary. "The Vanished Pregnant Body in Psychoanalytic Female Developmental Theory." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, no. 51 (2003): 1153-1179.
Batterton, Rosemary. "Promising Monsters: Pregnant Bodies, Artistic Subjectivity, and Maternal Imaginations." Hypatia 21.1 (2006): 80-100.
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Blum, Barbara L. Psychological Aspects of Pregnancy, Birthing, and Bonding. New York: Human Sciences, 1980.
Bornemark, Jonna. "Life beyond Individuality: A-subjective Experience in Pregnancy." In Phenomenology of Pregnancy: Södertörn Philosophical Studies 18, edited by Jonna Bornemark and Nicholas Smith, 251-278. Stockholm: Elanders, 2016.
Bornemark, Jonna. "The Logic of Pregnancy." The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, no. 48 (2023): 128-140. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhad005
Bornemark, Jonna and Nicholas Smith. Phenomenology of Pregnancy: Södertörn Philosophical Studies 18. Stockholm: Elanders, 2016.
Boström, Erik Jansson. "The Unborn Child and the Father: Acknowledgement and the Creation of the Other." In Phenomenology of Pregnancy: Södertörn Philosophical Studies 18. Stockholm: Elanders, 2016. 141-156.
Boulous-Walker, Michelle. Philosophy and the Maternal Body. London & New York: Routledge, 1998.
Bowen-Moore, Patricia. Hannah Arendt's Philosophy of Natality. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 1989.
Brand, Peg and Paula Granger. "The Aesthetics of Childbirth." In Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering, edited by Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt, 215-236. New York and London: Routledge, 2012.
Bryngelsson, Erik. "The Problem of Unity in Psychoanalysis: Birth Trauma and Separation." In Phenomenology of Pregnancy: Södertörn Philosophical Studies 18, edited by, Jonna Bornemark and Nicholas Smith, 225-250. Stockholm: Elanders, 2016.
Bueskens, Petra, ed. Mothering and Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives. Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press, 2014.
Burton, Nadya, Ed. Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press, 2015.
Cheyney, Melissa. “Reinscribing the Birthing Body: Homebirth as Ritual Performance.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 25.4 (2011): 519-542.
Cheyney, Melissa. "Understanding Recent Home-Birth Research: An Interview with Drs. Melissa Cheyney and Jonathan Snowden." The Journal of Perinatal Education 25.2 (Spring 2016): 80-86.
Cheyney, Melissa, and Robbie Davis-Floyd. Eds. Rituals and rites of childbirth across cultures. London: Routledge, 2021.
Cheyney, Melissa, Robbie Davis-Floyd, and Brigitte Jordan (posthumously). "Authoritative Knowledge: Ways of Doing, Teaching, and Learning About Birth: A Tribute to Brigitte Jordan." Practicing Anthropology 43.1 (2021): 41-48.
Chicago, Judy. The Birth Project. New York: Doubleday, 1985.
Chicago, Judy, and Edward Lucie-Smith. Women and Art: Contested Territory. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1999.
Chodorow, Nancy. "Reflections on The Reproduction of Mothering: Twenty Years Later." Studies in Gender and Sexuality 1.4 (2000): 337-48.
Chodorow, Nancy. The Reproduction of Mothering. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
Choo, Jessey J.C. “Adoption and Motherhood: The Petition Submitted by Lady [neé] Yu.” In Early Medieval China. Edited by Wendy Swartz et al. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 511–529.
Choo, Jessey J.C. “Beliefs and Rituals.” In A Cultural History of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Middle Ages (600-1500). London: Bloomsbury Academic [under contract].
Choo, Jessey J.C. Blood Debts: Childbearing, Filial Piety, and Women’s Soteriology in Chinese Religions, 600–1500 CE. Monograph in progress.
Choo, Jessey J.C. “That ‘Fatty Lump’: Discourses on the Fetus, Fetal Development, and Filial Piety in China Before the Eleventh Century CE.” Nan Nü 14 (2012): 177-221.
Choo, Jessey J.C. “There is a Talisman for That: Daoist Rituals for Protecting Pregnancy.” Asian Medicine, special issue [Accepted 2024].
Cole, Herbert M. “Exploring Motherhood in African Arts.” Ìmò Dára. April 6, 2018. https://www.imodara.com/magazine/exploring-motherhood-in-african-arts/
Cole, Herbert M. Maternity: Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa. Brussels: Mercator fonds, 2017.
Cooper, Gene. “Life-Cycle rituals in Dongyang County: time, affinity, and exchange in rural China.” Ethnology vol. 4 (1998): 373-394.
Crowther, Susan. Joy at Birth: An Interpretive, Hermeneutic, Phenomenological Inquiry. London: Routledge, 2020.
Crowther, Susan and Jenny Hall. Eds. Spirituality and Childbirth. London: Routledge, 2017.
Crowther, Susan, and Christine Mellor. "Mindfulness in childbirth preparation: Accentuating the psycho-spiritual-physiological connections." In Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere. Eds. Lorna Davies and Susan Crowther. London: Routledge, 2022.
Crowther, Susan, Audrey Stephen, and Jenny Hall. "Association of psychosocial-spiritual experiences around childbirth and subsequent perinatal mental health outcomes: an integrated review." Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology 38.1 (February 2020):60-85.
Crowther, Susan, and Gill Thomson. "From description to interpretive leap: Using philosophical notions to unpack and surface meaning in hermeneutic phenomenology research." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 19 (2020): 1-11.
Davies, Lorna. “The ‘birth’ works of Jonathan Waller.” RCM Midwives Journal 1.5 (May 1998).
Davies, Lorna, and Susan Crowther. Mindfulness in the Birth Sphere. London: Routledge, 2022.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. "Birth." In the Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. New York: Macmillan, 2007. 150-153.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. Birth as an American Right of Passage. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1992.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. "Birth as an American Rite of Passage." In Childbirth in America: Anthropological Perspectives. Edited by Karen Michaelson. Beacon Hill, MA: Begin and Garvey Publishers, 1988. 153-172.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. "La Partera Profesional: Articulating Identity and Cultural Space for a New Kind of Midwife in Mexico." Medical Anthropology (Special Issue: Daughters of Time: Shifting Identities of Contemporary Midwives. Robbie Davis-Floyd, Sheil Cosminsky, and Stacy L. Pigg, eds) vol. 20, no. 2-3 (2001): 185-243.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. "Obstetric Training as a Rite of Passage." Medical Anthropology Quarterly (Special Issue: Obstetrics in the United States: Woman, Physician, and Society. Robert Hahn, ed.) 1.3 (1987): 288-318.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. "Pregnancy and Cultural Confusion: Contradictions in Socialization." In Cultural Constructions of Woman. Edited by Pauline Kolenda. Salem, WI: Sheffield Press, 1987. 9-71.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. "The Role of American Obstetrics in the Resolution of Cultural Anomaly." Social Science and Medicine 31.2 (1990): 175-189.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. "The Technocratic Body and the Organic Body: Cultural Models for Women's Birth Choices." In Knowledge and Society - Special Issue: The Anthropology of Science and Technology, vol. 9. Edited by David J. Hess and Linda L. Layne. Hartford, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1992.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. "The Technocratic, Humanistic, and Holistic Models of Birth." International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 75.1 (2001): S5-S23.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. "The Technological Model of Birth." Journal of American Folklore (Special Issue: Folklore and Feminism 100.398 (1987): 93-109.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E., and Christine Barbara, eds. Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of Change. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. and Melissa Cheyney. Birth in Eight Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. Prospect Hts, Illinois: Waveland Press, 2018.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E., Sheila Cosminsky, and Stacy L. Pigg, eds. "Daughters of Time: The Shifting Identities of Contemporary Midwives." Medical Anthropology - Special triple issue, vol. 20. Nos. 2-3 and 4 (2001).
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E., and Joseph Dumit, eds. Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. and Carolyn F. Sargent. Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E. and Carolyn F. Sargent. "The Social Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Pregnancy and Childbirth." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 10.2 (1996). 111-120.
Davis-Floyd, Robbie E., Lesley Barclay, Betty-Anne Daviss, and Jan Tritten, eds. Birth Models That Work. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2009.
Delaporte (Kabir), Marianne. "Curse to Co-Creation: Religious Models of Labor Pain." Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement 9.2 (Fall/Winter 2018).
Delaporte (Kabir), Marianne. "Labor (Childbirth): Modern Europe and America." In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Boston, MA.: DeGruyter Press, 2016.
Delaporte (Kabir), Marianne and Morag Martin. Sacred Inception: Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth in the Modern World. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2018.
Devereaux, Mary. "Feminist Aesthetics." In The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, edited by Jerrold Levinson, 647-44. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Doutraiux, Miriam. Aztec ‘Birthing Figure.’ Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection mexicolore.co.uk/Aztecs/artefacts/birthing-figure.
Dowling, Terence, and Dirk Leinweber. "Die Plazenta: Ein Urbild des Lebensbaumes: (The Placenta: An archetype of the tree of life)." In Deutsche Hebammen Zeitschrift (German Midwife Magazine) 12 (2001): 17-20.
Duncan, Ann W. Sacred Pregnancy: Birth, Motherhood, and the Quest for Spiritual Community. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Fortress Press, 2023.
Duncan, Ann W. “Sacred Pregnancy in the Age of the “Nones.”’ Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 85.4 (2017): 1089-1115.
Dunlea, Margaret, Martina Hynan, Joe Murphy-Lawless, Magdalena Ohaja, Malgorzata Gosia Stach, and Jeannine Webster. "From Mastership to Active Management of Labor: The Culture of Irish Obstetrics and Obstetricians." In Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics: Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians Practices. Eds. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Ashish Premkumar. Oxford: Berghahn, 2023: 51-71.
Ealom, Tayla Shanaye. Disruption, Reclamation and Delight: A Critical Organic Autoethnography of a Black Mother's Childbirth as Liberatory Transpersonal Consciousness, PhD diss. (California Institute of Integral Studies, 2023).
Epstein, Randi Hunter. Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Evertz, Klaus, Ludwig Janus, and Rupert Linder, Eds. Handbook of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology: Integrating Research and Practice. New York: Springer, 2020.
Fischer, Sally. "Becoming Bovine: A Phenomenology of Early Motherhood, and Its Practical, Political Consequences." In Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering, edited by Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt, 191-214. New York and London: Routledge, 2012.
Flakne, April. "Nausea as Interoceptive Annunciation." In Phenomenology of Pregnancy: Södertörn Philosophical Studies 18, edited by, Jonna Bornemark and Nicholas Smith, 103-118. Stockholm: Elanders, 2016.
Fletcher, Claire Dion and Cheryllee Bourgeois. “Refusing Delinquency, Reclaiming Power: Indigenous Women and Childbirth.” In Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting, edited by Nadya Burton, 153-171. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press, 2015.
Fox, Faulkner. "Pregnant Perspective." Feminist Studies 26.2 (2000): 310.
Fraser, Gertrude Jacinta. African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Freitag, Barbara. Sheela-Na-Gigs: Unravelling an Enigma. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
Furth, Charlotte. A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China’s Medical History 960-1665 CE. Oakland: University of California Press, 1999.
Garvan, Joan Frances. "Maternal ambivalence in contemporary Australia: navigating equity and care." Ph.D. diss., (Australian National University, 2010).
Gélis, Jacques. History of Childbirth. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Polity Press, 1991.
Georges, Eugenia, and Robbie Davis-Floyd. "Humanistic Obstetrics in Brazil: A Revolution in Maternity Care." In The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology. Lenore Anderson, Anita Hardon, and Elizabeth Cartwright, eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2016. 340-345.
Gopnik, Alison. The Philosophical Baby. London: Picador (an imprint of MacMillan Publishers), 2010.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Babies as Ancestors, Babies as Spirits: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa." Expedition 46.3 (2004). 13-21.
Gottlieb, Alma. "Menstrual Cosmology among the Being of Ivory Coast." In Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation. Edited by Thomas Buckley and Alma Gottlieb. Oakland: University of California Press, 1988.
Gottlieb, Alma. The Afterlife is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Gottlieb, Alma, and Thomas Buckley, Eds. Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation. Oakland: University of California Press, 1988.
Guenther, Lisa. “Fecundity and Natal Alienation: Rethinking Kingship with Emmanuel Levinas and Orlando Patterson.” Levinas Studies vol. 7 (2012): 1-19.
Guenther, Lisa. “Like a Maternal Body: Emmanuel Levinas and the Motherhood of Moses.” Hypatia, vol. 21, no. 1 (Winter, 2006): 119-136.
Guenther, Lisa. “The Birth of Sexual Difference: A Feminist Response to Merleau-Ponty.” In Coming to Life: Philosophies of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering, edited by Sarah LaChance Adams and Caroline R. Lundquist, 88-108. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.
Guenther, Lisa. The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2006.
Gurton-Wachter, Lily. “The Stranger Guest: The Literature of Pregnancy and New Motherhood.” Los Angeles Review of Books. July 29, 2016. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/stranger-guest-literature-pregnancy-new-motherhood/.
Haslanger, Sally, and Charlotte Witt. Adoption Matters: Philosophical and Feminist Essays. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Hennessey, Anna. “A Philosophy of Collective Intentionality and the Transformation of Meaning During the Contemporary Rituals of Birth.” In The Logic of Social Practices II, Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Springer Nature, 2024. 147-157.
Hennessey, Anna. "Birth, Art, Trauma and Catalonia: The Eternal Return as Cultural Identity." Presidential Address, American Academy of Religion, Western Region. Video streamed live online on March 20, 2021. 20:52. https://www.academia.edu/video/l2wEJk.
Hennessey, Anna. Pregnancy, Daoism and Art: “Chinese Images of Nature, Body, and Cosmos: Visualizing Human Physiology and Homeostasis with the Natural World." In Religion and Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses: Intersection of Sustainability Studies and Religion, Theology, Philosophy (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Series). New York: Springer, 2022.
Hennessey, Anna. “How Childbirth Became Philosophy’s Last Taboo.” The Institute of Art and Ideas. August 10, 2017. https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/why-do-the-arts-put-death-before-birth-auid-867.
Hennessey, Anna. Imagery, Ritual, and Birth: Ontology Between the Sacred and the Secular. Lanham: Lexington Books, imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Hennessey, Anna. Visualization, Daoism, and Birth: “I saw my baby as a river flowing through me, and gave birth.” Aeon+Psyche. Feb. 24, 2022. https://psyche.co/ideas/i-saw-my-baby-as-a-river-flowing-through-me-and-gave-birth
Hennessey, Anna. "La maternitat, trauma i naixement en l'art català." Presentació a la Universitat Catalana D'Estiu. Video streamed live on August 16, 2021. 20:52. https://www.academia.edu/video/kGMeY1.
Hennessey, Anna. “Matricentric Art: A Philosophy of Maternal Work Through the Act of Creativity” in The Mother Wave: Matricentric Feminism as Theory, Activism and Practice. Edited by Andrea O’Reilly, Victoria Bailey and Fiona Joy Green. Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press, 2024.
Hennessey, Anna. "Rebirth and the Eternal Return in Modern and Contemporary Catalan Art and Identity." Religions, 14(1), 86 (2023). https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/1/86.
Hennessey, Anna. “Religion, Nonreligion and the Sacred: Art in the Contemporary Rituals of Birth.” Religions 12.11, 941 (November 2021). Special Issue “Birth and Death: Studying Ritual, Embodied Practices and Spirituality at the Start and End of Life.” https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/11/941.
Hennessey, Anna. "Representations of Birth and Motherhood as Contemporary Forms of the Sacred." In Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting, edited by Nadia Burton, 194-217. Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press, 2015.
Hennessey, Anna. Review of Birth in Ancient China: A Study of Metaphor and Cultural Identity in Pre-Imperial China (2017). Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo. Body and Religion. Equinox Publishing, 2018.
Hennessey, Anna. Review of Families of Virtue: Confucian and Western Views on Childhood Development. Erin M. Cline. Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. Springer, 2016.
Review of Motherly: Reimagining the Maternal Body in Feminist Theology and Contemporary Art by Rebekah Pryor. Reading Religion. Atlanta: The American Academy of Religion, 2024.
Hennessey, Anna. Review of Philosophical Inquiries into Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Mothering (2011). Edited by Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt. Journal of the Motherhood Initiative. Demeter Press, 2014.
Hennessey, Anna. Review of The Impact of Ritual on Child Cognition. Veronica Rybanska. Reading Religion. Atlanta: The American Academy of Religion, 2021.
Hennessey, Anna. "Ritual and Art in a Philosophy of Birth." In Spirituality and Childbirth, edited by Susan Crowther and Jenny Hall, 30-51. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Hennessey, Anna. “Social Ontology and the Rituals of Birth.” Proceedings of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Annual Conference, UC Berkeley, 2-6 2019 (May 2020).
Hennessey, Anna. “The Intellectual Marginalization of Childbirth and Its Real-World Implications.” Journal of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology: vol. 32 (3) (March 2018): 271-280.
Hynan, Martina. "Does the place where we are born matter?" Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, Special Issue: Maternal Health and Well-Being: 11.1 (Spring 2020): 109-121.
Hynan, Martina. "Hidden in Plain Sight: Mapping the Erasure of the Maternal Body from Visual Culture." Untangling the Maternity Crisis. Eds. Nadine Edwards, Rosemary Mander & Jo Murphy-Lawless. London: Routledge, 2018.
Hynan, Martina. "Joining the Dots...Mapping Maternal Identity in Ireland." The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It. Edited by Andrea O'Reilly. Toronto, Canada: York University, 2010.
Hynan, Martina. "Practising Birth Activism: The Campaign for Mandatory Inquests for Maternal Deaths in Ireland." 2021.
Hynan, Martina. "Uprooting Childbirth: From Home to Hospital Birth in Twentieth Century Ireland" in Birth and the Irish: A Miscellany. Edited by Salvador Ryan. Maynooth, Ireland: NUI Maynooth, 2021.
Hynan, Martina. "We Have Hardly Begun: Feminist Art History - Conference Review." Irish Feminist Review (National University of Ireland, NUI Galway): vol. 2 (2006).
Irigaray, Luce. To Be Born: Genesis of a New Human Being. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Irigaray, Luce, Mahon O'Brien and Christos Hadjioannou, eds. Towards a New Human Being. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.
Janus, Ludwig. The Enduring Effects of Prenatal Experiences: Echoes from the Womb. Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024.
Jones, Lucy. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood. London: Allen Lane, 2023.
Jones, Rachel. "Irigaray and Lyotard: Birth, Infancy, and Metaphysics." Hypatia vol. 27, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 139-162.
Jordan, Brigitte. “Authoritative Knowledge and Its Construction.” In Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge, edited by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd and Carolyn F. Sargent, 55-79. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.
Jordan, Brigitte, and Robbie Davis-Floyd. Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States.Fountain Valley, California: Eden Press Women’s Publications, 1978.
Kahn, Robbie Pfeufer. Bearing Meaning: The Language of Birth. Urbana and Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
Kaplan, E. Ann. Motherhood and Representation. London: Routledge, 1992.
Keller, Jean. "Rethinking Ruddick and the Ethnocentrism Critique of Maternal Thinking." Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 25.4 (2010): 834-51.
Kingma, Elselijn. "Biological individuality, pregnancy and (mammalian) reproduction" in Philosophy of Science, 87.5 (2020): 1037-1048. https://doi.org/10.1086/710612
Kingma, Elselijn. "Lady Parts: The metaphysics of pregnancy" in Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 82 (2018): 165-187. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1358246118000115
Kingma, Elselijn. "Nine months" in Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 45.3 (2020), 371–386. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhaa005
Kingma, Elselijn. "Were you a part of your mother?" in Mind, 128.511 (2019), 609–646. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzy087
Kingma, Elselijn, & Finn, S. "Neonatal incubator or artificial womb? Distinguishing ectogestation and ectogenesis using the metaphysics of pregnancy" in Bioethics, 34.4 (2020), 354-363. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12717
Kirwen, Michael C. African Cultural Domain No. 1: Pregnancy and Birthing Rites and Rituals. Nairobi, Kenya: Maryknoll Institute of African Studies, 2004.
Kitzinger, Sheila. A Passion for Birth: My Life: Anthropology, Family and Feminism. London: Pinter & Martin, 2015.
Kitzinger, Sheila. Being Born. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1986.
Kitzinger, Sheila. Birth Crisis. Milton Park, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2006.
Kitzinger, Sheila. Improving Maternity Services: Small Is Beautiful - Lessons from a Birth Centre (Foreword). Abingdon: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd, 2006.
Kitzinger, Sheila. Rediscovering Birth. Boston: Little, Brown 2000. Reissued by Pinter & Martin, 2011.
Kitzinger, Sheila. The Politics of Birth. New York: Elsevier, 2005.
Klassen, Pamela E. Blessed Events: Religion and Homebirth in America, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Kristeva, Julia. "Motherhood According to Giovanni Bellini." In Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, 237-270. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
Kristeva, Julia. "Women's Time." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 7.1 (1981): 13-35.
Kukla, Rebecca. Mass Hysteria: Medicine, Culture, and Mothers' Bodies. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. “A Radically New Meditation for Philosophy,” Response to Stella Villarmea’s “A Philosophy of Birth: If you want to change the world change the conversation,” Open Research Europe 2021. 1:65 https://doi.org/10.21956/openreseurope.14403.r27077.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. "Erotic Intersubjectivity: Sex, Death, and Maternity in Bataille." In Phenomenology of Pregnancy: Södertörn Philosophical Studies 18, edited by Jonna Bornemark and Nicholas Smith, 91-102. Stockholm: Elanders, 2016.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. “Becoming with Child: Pregnancy as Provocation to Authenticity” in New Perspectives on Sartre. Edited but Adrian Mirvish & Adrian van den Hoven. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. 25-36.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. “Gender Inclusive Language in Midwifery and Perinatal Services: An Argument for Justice,” with Sally Pezaro, John Pendleton, Rodante van der Waal, Mario JDS Santos, Laura Godfrey-Isaacs, Krishna Istha, Ash Bainbridge, Zan Maeder, John Gilmore, Jeannine Webster, Bunty Lai-Boyd, Anne Marie Brennan, and Elizabeth Newnham. Birth. under review.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers and What a "Good" Mother Would Do: The Ethics of Ambivalence. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2014.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. “Maternal Ambivalence” in Maternal Theory: Essential Readings, 2nd edition. Edited by Andrea O'Reilly. Ontario, Canada: Demeter Press, 2021.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. “Maternal Ambivalence.” Routledge Handbook on Gender and Reproduction. Edited by Liz Newnham, Barbara Katz Rothman, and Rodante van der Waal. Forthcoming 2024.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. “Maternal Thinking (Ruddick)” in Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Edited by Andrea O’Reilly & J. Geoffrey Golson. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, April 2010.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. “Philosophy and Motherhood” in Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Edited by Andrea O'Reilly and J. Geoffrey Golson. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, April 2010.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. Review of Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Maternal Subjectivity by Alison Stone in Hypatia Reviews Online. Fall 2015.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. Review of Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood by Shelley Park in APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy. Spring 2015
LaChance Adams, Sarah. Review of The Pregnancy [does not equal] Childbearing Project by Jennifer Scuro in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. 2018.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. Review of Wishing: Diaries of a Teenage Pregnancy by Kim McLeod in the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, 11.9 (2009).
LaChance Adams, Sarah. “The Child Anticipates: Review of The Child as Natural Phenomenologist: Primal and Primary Experience in Merleau-Ponty's Psychology by Talia Welsh.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 14.4 (2015). 1179-1183.
LaChance Adams, Sarah. “The Pregnable Subject: Maternity and Levinas’ Relevance to Feminism” in Phenomenology, vol. 5 (2010) from Selected Essays from North America. Part 1: Phenomenology within Philosophy. Edited by Michael Barber, Lester Embree, and Thomas J. Nenon. Ocala, Florida: Zeta Books, 2010. 333-355.
LaChance Adams, Sarah, and Paul Burcher. “Communal Pushing: Childbirth and Intersubjectivity” in Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine. Edited by Kristin Zeiler and Lisa Karla. Albany, New York: SUNY, 2014. 69-80.
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