Books about Midwives

Armstrong, Penny, and Cheryl Feldman
A Midwife's Story. 1986.
Ashford, Janet Isaacs.
Midwives.
Janet Isaacs Ashford.
Mothers and Midwives: A History of Traditional Childbirth. (Solana Beach, CA: Janet Isaacs Ashford, 1988).
Courter, Gay
The Midwife. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981).
Courter, Gay
The Midwife's Advice. (Penguin, 1992, paperback, 1994).
Leep, Nicky, and Hunter, Billie
The Midwife's Tale.
Logan, Onni Lee (as told to Katherine Clark).
Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story. (E.P. Dutton, 1989).
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher
A Midwife's Tale. (New York: Vintage Books, 1990).

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