Commonplace Podcast

Episode 94: Jennifer Block


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Books and Projects

Everything Below the Waist: Why Healthcare Needs a Feminist Revolution (2019)

Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care (2008)

Our Bodies Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era (2005), Contributing Editor

Ms. Magazine (founded 1972), former Editor

Other Texts & People Mentioned in the Episode

Heather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You (2021)

Susun S. Weed, New Menopausal Years, Volume 3: Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90 (2002)

Our Bodies Ourselves (series, 1970-present)

Federation of Feminist Women's Health Center, A New View of a Woman's Body: A Fully Illustrated Guide (1981)

Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women (1978)

Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English, Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers (1973) 

Shulamith Firestone

Adrienne Rich

Jerilynn Prior

Laura Eldridge, In Our Control: The Complete Guide to Contraceptive Choices For Women (2010)*

Holly Grigg-Spall, Sweetening the Pill: Or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control (2013)

Cynthia Graham

Planned Parenthood

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)

Lyn Paltrow, founder of National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW)

Rinat Dray case and decision

First-Wave Feminism

Second-Wave Feminism

*misnamed as Ashley Eldridge in the episode

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