 | Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth, Third Edition by Jeannine Parvati Baker
Buy used from: $45.25 Above all else, THIS book was the one that inspired me, guided me, and taught me to trust my Self, my Intuition, and my Baby for a safe and beautiful birth.
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 | CHILDBIRTH WITHOUT FEAR Large Print by Grantly Dick-Read
Buy new: $22.03 / Used from: $18.70 Another one that challenges the American cultural ASSumption that childbirth is inherently dangerous. Dr. Dick-Read was the first American OB to stand up and say that women were fully capable of giving birth, as long as they relax and are left to their own mama-work! His and Michel Odent's work were invaluable to the Natural Childbirth movement worldwide.
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 | Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $1.61 Should be required reading for every womyn! It is a pure celebration of what it means to be female.
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 | Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $4.49 This is the book that welcomed me into motherhood. Despite her bold and unapologetic remarks about circumcision, this is still one of THE best looks at motherhood.
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 | The Mother Trip: Hip Mama's Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood (Live Girls) by Ariel Gore
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 -- A book that shows that it's OK to relax and just be who you are, and that you don't have to aim for "perfect."
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 | In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Plus) by Carl Honore
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.88 This is one of those books that I set down knowing I had to make a change in my life. It is a breath of fresh air in a culture that entrenches its citizens in speed. Stop and smell the flowers!
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 | The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $5.00 -- Something I could relate to, but also that let me get a broader perspective on the Big Picture...
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 | Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.19 I laughed, and I cried, and I laughed some more. And then I cried *while laughing*. This is another one that shows Motherhood, and WOMYNHOOD, in all it's startling realness.
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 | A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A fiction work that carries the weighty message that we should trust our intuition and believe in the ability of the Self to lead us to exactly where we need to be at exactly the moment we need to be there.
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 | Birth as an American Rite of Passage by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
Buy new: $19.74 / Used from: $14.00 If you've never wondered what is wrong with the American birth industry, this book will make you ask -- and then give you the answers...
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 | The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It by Marcia Angell
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.94 The title pretty much says it all. (Don't trust Big Pharma!)
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 | On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.30 (Everyone needs a bit of Wanderlust...)
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 | Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism (3rd Edition) by Richard H. Robbins
Buy new: $79.02 / Used from: $1.20 "What's wrong with the world? CAPITALIST DOGS are what's wrong with the world!" Yes, *really.*
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 | Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them by Mark Jerome Walters
Buy new: $17.96 / Used from: $4.60 This book explores what the author calls "modern plagues," from Ebola, to the Hanta virus, to Lyme disease, and more, and explains how humans messing with the environment is the root cause of them. (Yikes.) -- Something everyone should be aware of...
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 | Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $9.34 This is another book I relied on heavily throughout pregnancy to reinforce my faith in my body's ability to grow and birth healthy babies!
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 | His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $15.30 / Used from: $13.76 (There's just something about these books....
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 | The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story (Deluxe Edition) by Douglas Adams
Buy new: $15.66 / Used from: $16.06 .... and these too!)
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 | Beginning Life by Geraldine Lux Flanagan
Buy used from: $0.01 A beautiful look into the womb....
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 | In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) by Philippe Bourgois
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $5.55 If you're going to raise children you should know more about the culture you're bringing them into...
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 | I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $1.99 (Think you know where your coffee comes from?)
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 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.88 -- Trust your intuition, because it's right.
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 | Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Buy used from: $0.94 "O brave new world, that has such people in it!"
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 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.90 ("Hello Bush, this is Orwell calling, I'd like my dystopia back...")
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 | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.49 (Another, in the same vein...)
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 | Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.80 This book was so incredibly funny I didn't realize how much I was learning until I walked away from it. While the subject matter doesn't directly relate to childbirth, questioning authority, or being a Womyn, it DOES force you to question the way you perceive (remember, interpret, and process) reality ~ a useful skill for anyone who wants to be a critically thinking Citizen.
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