- Before Birth
- Elena Nightingale
- Melissa Goodman
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- Eve's Herbs
- John M. Riddle
- In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal abortifacients and contraceptives to regulate fertility. In Eve's Herbs, Riddle explores a new question: If women once had access to effective means of birth control, why was this knowledge lost to them in modern times?
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- Hot and Bothered
- Judith A. Houck
- How did menopause change from being a natural (and often welcome) end to a woman's childbearing years to a deficiency disease in need of medical and pharmacological intervention? By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008