Books about Midwives

Armstrong, Penny, and Cheryl Feldman

A Midwife's Story. (Ivy Books, Reissue edition, 1988).

Ashford, Janet Isaacs.

Midwives. (???)

Ashford, Janet Isaacs .

Mothers and Midwives: A History of Traditional Childbirth. (Solana Beach, CA: Janet Isaacs Ashford, 1988).

Bovard, Wendy L., Gladys Milton, Giles Milton (Contributor)

Why Not Me? : The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife. (Book Pub Co, 1993)

Courter, Gay

The Midwife. (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981).

Courter, Gay

The Midwife's Advice. (Penguin, 1992, paperback, 1994).

Cushman, Karen

The Midwife's Apprentice. (HarperTrophy, Reprint edition, 1996). (Young Adult book.)

Fraser, Gertrude Jacinta

African American Midwifery in the South : Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. (Harvard University Press, 1998.)

Nina Rattner Gelbart

The King's Midwife : A History and Mystery of Madame Du Coudray. (Univ California Press, 1998)

Leep, Nicky, and Hunter, Billie

The Midwife's Tale. (Scarlet Press, 1993).

Logan, Onni Lee (as told to Katherine Clark).

Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story. (E.P. Dutton, 1989). (Out of Print.)

Sessions, Patty Bartlett, and Smart, Donna Toland (Editor)

Mormon Midwife : The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions. (Utah State University Press, 1997.)

Smith, Margaret Charles and Holmes, Linda Janet (Contributor)

Listen to Me Good : The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife. (Ohio State Univ Pr, 1996). (18 pages.)

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

A Midwife's Tale. (New York: Vintage Books, 1990).

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