You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
By: Meera Shah
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, au…
Want to Read $ 13.49If you liked the health plot in You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion by Meera Shah , here is a list of 6 books like this:
1. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
By: Ann Fessler
4.24
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrend… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Ann Fessler's The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- memoir
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
"Secrets keep families sick. You never keep secrets in families because even if the child doesn't know what the secret is, they will always know there is a secret."-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
"We were not criminals. We're mothers. The difference was I was not an authenticated mother. I was an illegal mother. I was a denied mother. And I had to come home and live my life after being robbed …"-Ann Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Laura Kaplan's The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
3. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
4. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- health
5. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
Want to Read $ 9.48Similar categories in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
6. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion
By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair
4.51
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Gabrielle Stanley Blair's Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- health
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- audiobook
7. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
8. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
9. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- health
10. The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion
By: Diana Greene Foster
4.58
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without t… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Diana Greene Foster's The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- health
- medical
- feminism
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- audiobook
11. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By: Mikki Kendall
4.37
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more
Want to Read $ 5.99Similar categories in Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- audiobook
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
12. You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
By: Meera Shah
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling” —Cecile Richards, au… read more
Want to Read $ 13.49Similar categories in Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- memoir
- health
- medical
- feminism
- politics
- medicine
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- audiobook
13. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
By: Soraya Chemaly
4.35
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Soraya Chemaly's Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- womens
- audiobook
"Rage became a layer of my skin."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"Every woman has a rape story, whether she has been sexually assaulted or not."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"... if a man gets angry, he's having an off day, if a woman does, she's a raging bitch."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
"I wanted to own my anger, because it brought me back to myself. It gave me clarity and purpose."-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
14. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
15. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
16. Everything/Nothing/Someone
By: Alice Carrière
4.02
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Alice Carrière's Everything/Nothing/Someone book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
17. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
By: Karen Tang
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Karen Tang's It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told) book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- health
- medical
- feminism
- medicine
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
By: DeRay Mckesson
4.16
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
"On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man who has risen to the … read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in DeRay Mckesson's On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"Friendship and love cannot thrive when trapped in trauma."-DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
"I have grown tired of the notion of an ally. I prefer the language of an “accomplice."-DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
"The theory of policing is quite far from the reality of policing. For us, at least, that is."-DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
"We need to remind the peers of the bully that they benefit from bullying even if they are not themselves the transgressors. Indeed, they benefit from it, but they are tarnished by it. To chip away at…"-DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
19. Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
By: Jessica Calarco
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the cau… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Jessica Calarco's Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
20. Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men
By: Reah Bravo
4.10
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how women unintentionally condone workpl… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Reah Bravo's Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve
By: Drew Afualo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Drew Afualo is best known as the internet’s 'Crusader for Women' and is at the head of a new genera… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Drew Afualo's Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve book and Meera Shah's You're the Only One I've Told: The Stories Behind Abortion
- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
