Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

  • Read and listen as much as you want
  • Over 1 million titles
  • Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
  • 7 days free trial, then €9.99/month
  • Easy to cancel anytime
Subscribe Now
Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood

Duration
13H 14min
Language
English
Format
Category

Non-fiction

Policing the Womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies.

Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary confinement, and even delivering in prison toilets.

In some states, pregnancy has become a bargaining chip with prosecutors offering reduced sentences in exchange for women agreeing to be sterilized. The author shows how prosecutors may abuse laws and infringe women’s rights in the process, sometimes with the complicity of medical providers who disclose private patient information to law enforcement. Often the women most affected are poor and of color. Goodwin warns, however, poor women are simply the canaries in the coalmine as some legislators now claim that women’s constitutional rights equal that of embryos and fetuses.

In this book, Michele Goodwin brings to light how the unrestrained efforts to punish and police women’s reproduction has led to the United States being the deadliest country in the developed world for pregnant women.

© 2023 Blackstone Publishing (Audiobook): 9798212278614

Release date

Audiobook: October 31, 2023

Others also enjoyed ...

  1. A Curious History of Sex Kate Lister
  2. Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History Philippa Gregory
  3. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today Elizabeth Comen
  4. A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be Dr. Deena Emera
  5. Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Woman Renee Engeln
  6. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too Ijeoma Oluo
  7. Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward Gemma Hartley
  8. How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self Dr. Nicole LePera
  9. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time John Kelly
  10. Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World Laura James
  11. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture Roxane Gay
  12. Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love Amir Levine
  13. Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia Hadley Freeman
  14. Insight: The Power of Self-Awareness in a Self-Deluded World Tasha Eurich
  15. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  16. Sorrow and Bliss: A Novel Meg Mason
  17. What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom Arash Azizi
  18. The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule Angela Saini
  19. Thank You For Listening: A Novel Julia Whelan
  20. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe
  21. The Song of Achilles: A Novel Madeline Miller
  22. Tears of the Silenced: An Amish True Crime Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Brutal Betrayal, and Ultimate Survival Misty Griffin
  23. The Essex Serpent: A Novel Sarah Perry
  24. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine Gail Honeyman
  25. Alone With You in the Ether: A love story like no other and a Heat Magazine Book of the Week Olivie Blake
  26. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  27. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism Amanda Montell
  28. Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes Anne Elizabeth Moore
  29. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life Peter Godfrey-Smith
  30. The Hating Game: A Novel Sally Thorne
  31. Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami
  32. Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata
  33. When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt Kara Cooney
  34. My Dark Vanessa: A Novel Kate Elizabeth Russell
  35. Feminism Is for Everybody Bell Hooks
  36. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Amanda Montell
  37. Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History Philippa Gregory
  38. Bad Feminist: Essays Roxane Gay
  39. How to Kill Your Family Bella Mackie

This is why you’ll love Storytel

  • Listen and read without limits

  • 800 000+ stories in 40 languages

  • Kids Mode (child-safe environment)

  • Cancel anytime

Unlimited stories, anytime
Time limited offer

Unlimited

Listen and read as much as you want

9.99 € /month
  • 1 account

  • Unlimited Access

  • Offline Mode

  • Kids Mode

  • Cancel anytime

Try now