5 Best feminism books like Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America by David S. Cohen

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Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America

By: David S. Cohen

4.52

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their…

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1. Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

By: Ina May Gaskin

4.36

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you. Drawing upon her thirty-plus year… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet."

-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

"Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body."

-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

"It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physic…"

-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

"Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nu…"

-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

2. The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

By: Laura Kaplan

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

"In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, most women determined to … read more

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3. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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4. Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

By: Aja Barber

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Aja Barber wants change. In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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5. The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

By: Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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7. Crossroads

By: Jonathan Franzen

4.06

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision … read more

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"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."

-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads

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8. Every Last Fear

By: Alex Finlay

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“They found the bodies on a Tuesday.” So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that traces t… read more

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"Funny how you acquire the verbal tics of your friends."

-Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

"You have two choices when you’re confronted with your every last fear: Give up or fight like hell."

-Alex Finlay, Every Last Fear

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9. The Topeka School

By: Ben Lerner

3.50

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive famil… read more

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"The problem for him in high school was that debate made you a nerd and poetry made you a pussy – even if both could help you get to the vaguely imagines East Coast city from which your experiences in…"

-Ben Lerner, The Topeka School

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10. Whisper Network

By: Chandler Baker

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truvi… read more

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  • feminism
"We have been programed to work with secrets."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"Sloane played by the rules of the game. So she could stay. She could keep her seat at the table."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"Children turned men into heroes and mothers into weaker employees if we didn't play our cards right."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"We wanted to be treated just like men, at work, for the same reason that people buy smart phones: to make our lives easyer."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

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11. Exciting Times

By: Naoise Dolan

3.23

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled… read more

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"Eunice Fong said: “Miss, are you sick?"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills."

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

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12. Mrs. Everything

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.85

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Alternate cover for ISBN# 9781501133503 Do we change or does the world change us? Jo and Beth… read more

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13. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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14. The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

By: Bill McKibben

4.19

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben―award-winning author, activist, educat… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
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15. Bodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

By: Lauren Rankin

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerfully empathetic and impeccably researched look at abortion clinic escorting Abortion has… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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16. Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America

By: David S. Cohen

4.52

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their… read more

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  • feminism
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  • social justice
  • gender and sexuality

8 Top nonfiction books like Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America by David S. Cohen

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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Ina May Gaskin

4.36

Transform Your Habits

In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Mona Chollet

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change

Aja Barber

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

Ricardo Nuila

4.38

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12 Best adult books like We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

Transform Your Habits

A Living Remedy: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

4.01

Transform Your Habits

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

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