What to Read After The Woman in the Body
Readers who loved The Woman in the Body by Emily Martin keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Woman in the Body is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Woman in the Body
Pathologies of Power
Writing Women's Worlds
Birth in four cultures
Blood Magic
Pushed
AIDS and Accusation
Myths of Motherhood
The illness narratives
In Search of Respect
Witches, midwives, and nurses
Purity and Danger
Death without weeping
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
From outrage to courage
The devil and commodity fetishism in South America
Her blood is gold
The wise wound
Wounded Storyteller
Gender Trouble
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Mountains beyond mountains
On Beauty
Men Explain Things To Me
Not that kind of girl