Women's Health


Art Film Literature


Art


Cruikshank, Isaac     A Man Midwife
Des Granges, David     The Saltonstall Family
Eakins, Thomas     The Agnew Clinic
Ferguson, Laura     The Visible Skeleton Series
Gervex, Henri     Before the Operation
Greuze, Jean-Baptiste     A Tired Woman with Two Children
    The Well-Loved Mother
Hodler, Ferdinand     The Dying Valentine Godé-Darel
Kahlo, Frida     The Broken Column
    Frida and the Miscarriage
    Henry Ford Hospital
    Without Hope
Klimt, Gustav     Hope, II
Matuschka,     Matuschka Archive
Quinn, Marc     Alison Lapper Pregnant
Sickert, Walter Richard     Ennui
Spence, Jo     Jo Spence Archive
Steen, Jan     The Doctor's Visit
Valadon, Suzanne     The Abandoned Doll


Film


    All About My Mother
    Antonia's Line
    Battlestar Galactica (2003)
    Beautiful Dreamers
    The Body Beautiful
    The Brood
    Casa de los Babys
    Dark Victory
    Dead Ringers
    Dialogues with Madwomen
    Dr. Monica
    He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
    In My Skin (Dans ma Peau)
    Iris
    Kandahar-Journey into the Heart of Afghanistan
    Kinsey
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Made in America
    A Midwife's Tale
    A Modern Affair
    Mother Superior
    My Life Without Me
    The Odds of Recovery
    Of Hopscotch and Little Girls
    The Official Story (La Historia oficia)
    Opera Therapy
    Persona
    Road to Wellville
    A Slightly Pregnant Man
    The Snake Pit
    Sylvia
    Terms of Endearment
    Theory of Flight
    Thin
    The Three Faces of Eve
    Vera Drake
    Wanted! Doctor on Horseback
    A Woman Under the Influence
    Yesterday


Literature


Aizley, Harlyn     Buying Dad
Alexander, Sally Hobart     Taking Hold: My Journey into Blindness
Allen, Paula Gunn     Dear World
Andahazi, Federico     The Anatomist
Appignanesi, Lisa     Paris Requiem
Arcana, Judith     What if your mother
Ariyoshi, Sawako     The Doctor's Wife
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Arnold, June     Sister Gin
Atwood, Margaret     Alias Grace
    The Blind Assassin
    Bodily Harm
    Hairball
    Rape Fantasies
Auden, W. H.     Miss Gee
Bailey, Elisabeth Tova     The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Bambara, Toni Cade     A Girl's Story
    A Girl's Story
Bass, Ellen     First Menstruation
Beernink, K. D. (Kenneth Dale)     Ward Rounds
Benn, Gottfried     Man and Woman Go through the Cancer Ward
Bennett, Arnold     Riceyman Steps
Bennett, Cherie     Life in the Fat Lane
Berg, Elizabeth     Talk Before Sleep
Bloch, Chana     In the Land of the Body
Blume, Judy     Forever
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Bohjalian, Christopher A.     Midwives
Bolin, Robert B.     Unwanted Inheritance
Bovard, Wendy L.     Why Not Me? The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     Juliana Cloth
    Killing Babies
    The Road to Wellville
Brashler, Anne     He Read to Her
Breast Cancer Fund, American Cancer Society     Art. Rage. Us.: Art and Writing by Women with Breast Cancer
Brookner, Anita     Hotel du Lac
Brown, John     Rab and His Friends
Brown, S., H., ed.     Echoes of War
Bryner, Jeanne     Breathless
    This Red Oozing
Bulgakov, Mikhail     Baptism by Rotation
Bumbalo, Victor G.     What are Tuesdays Like?
Burgan, Mary     Illness, Gender and Writing: The Case of Katherine Mansfield
Burney, Fanny     A Mastectomy: Letter to Esther Burney
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Butler, Sandra     Cancer in Two Voices
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     Body Art
    The Chinese Lobster
    A Stone Woman
Cantwell, Mary     Manhattan, When I Was Young
Carmichael, A. G. & Ratzan, Richard M., eds.     Medicine: A Treasury of Art and Literature
Carr, Pat M.     Sunday Morning
Carson, Anne     Hero
carter, lu     Forever
Casey, Nell, ed.     Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Casper, Claudia     The Reconstruction
Chamoiseau, Patrick     Texaco
Chao, Patricia     Monkey King: A Novel
Chekhov, Anton P.     An Anonymous Story
    At Christmas Time
    An Attack of Nerves (A Nervous Breakdown)
    Betrothed
    The Darling
    The Examining Magistrate
    The Party
    The Two Volodyas
Chopin, Kate     The Awakening
Cisneros, Sandra     Woman Hollering Creek
Clifton, Lucille     Amazons
    donor
    the lost baby poem
    night sound
    poem in praise of menstruation
    poem to my uterus
    scar
    to my last period
    wishes for sons
Cohen, Marion Deutsche     Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse
Cokal, Susann     Mirabilis
Cook, Karin     What Girls Learn
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Cronin, A. J. (Archibald Joseph)     The Judas Tree
Cule, John     The Wreath on the Crown: The Story of Sarah Jacob the Welsh Fasting Girl
Dangarembga, Tsitsi     Nervous Conditions
Dans, Peter E.     Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah
Danticat, Edwidge     Breath, Eyes, Memory
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Davidson, Jenny     Heredity
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Between the Heartbeats: Poetry and Prose by Nurses
    Intensive Care
Davis, Cortney     The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
    I Knew a Woman: The Experience of the Female Body
    Leopold's Maneuvers
Day, Sarah     Antenatal Class
DeMaine, Mary R.     Six Days
Derricotte, Toi     Delivery
Dickens, Charles     A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Diedrich, Lisa     Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee     The Ultrasound
Doherty, Berlie     Dear Nobody
Donley, C. & Buckley, S., eds.     The Tyranny of the Normal
    What's Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
Dorner, Marjorie     Seasons of Sun and Rain
Douglas, Ellen     Apostles of Light
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Downie, Glen     Wishbone Dance
Drabble, Margaret     The Seven Sisters
Duffin, Jacalyn     History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction
    Langstaff: A Nineteenth-Century Medical Life
Dunant, Sarah     In the Company of the Courtesan
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Duncker, Patricia     James Miranda Barry
Dunmore, Helen     Annina
    The Thief
Duras, Marguerite     The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Easton, Kelly     To Be Mona
Edson, Margaret     Wit
Ehrenreich, Barbara     Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
    Welcome to Cancerland
Emmott, Kirsten     How Do You Feel?
Engel, Marian     Bear
    The Honeyman Festival
Ensler, Eve     The Vagina Monologues
Erdrich, Louise     Love Medicine
Euripides,     Medea
Fausto-Sterling, Anne     Myths of Gender: Biological Theories about Women and Men
Ferre, Rosario     The Youngest Doll
Fessler, Ann     The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Finger, Anne     Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth
Fiser, Karen     Losing and Finding
Foster, P., ed.     Minding The Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul
Fraser, Sylvia     My Father's House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing
Furst, L. R., ed.     Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
    Women Healers & Physicians
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gawande, Atul     Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Geller, J. L. & Harris, M., eds.     Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins     The Yellow Wallpaper
    The Yellow Wallpaper
Glaspell, Susan     A Jury of Her Peers
Goedicke, Patricia     In the Hospital
Goldsmith, Ellen     No Pine Tree in this Forest is Perfect
Goldstein, Melissa Anne     Travels with the Wolf
Gordon, R., ed.     The Literary Companion to Medicine
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Gottlieb, Lori     Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Grealy, Lucy     Autobiography of a Face
    Mirrorings
Groopman, Jerome E.     Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Grover, Lorie Ann     Loose Threads
Hacker, Marilyn     Cancer Winter
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Harjo, Joy     The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
Harrison, Kathryn     Saint Catherine of Siena: Catherine Means Pure
Harvor, Elisabeth     Excessive Joy Injures the Heart
Hass, Robert     A Story about the Body
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
Head, Bessie     A Question of Power
Hegi, Ursula     Stones from the River
Helfand, William H.     Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books
Hellerstein, David     Touching
Hemingway, Ernest     Hills Like White Elephants
Henderson-Holmes, Safiya     Snapshots of Grace
Hill, Lawrence     The Book of Negroes
Hirshbein, Laura D.     American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
Hitchcock, Susan Tyler     Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
Hodgson, Barbara     The Sensualist
Hogan, Linda     Tear
Hollingshead, Greg     Spin Dry
Holman, Sheri     The Dress Lodger
Hornbacher, Marya     Madness
    Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Houston, Pam     Out of Habit, I Start Apologizing
Hunt, Nan     A Palsied Girl Goes to the Beach
Husson, Thérèse-Adèle     Reflections: The Life and Writings of a Young Blind Woman in Post-Revolutionary France
Hutcheon, Linda Hutcheon, Michael     Opera: Desire, Disease, Death
Hyde, Catherine Ryan     Becoming Chloe
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Itani, Frances     Deafening
James, Henry     Daisy Miller: A Study
Jarrell, D. & Sukrungruang, I., eds.     What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology
Jewett, Sarah Orne     A Country Doctor
Johnson, Diane     Health and Happiness
Johnson, Marilyn     Womansong
Jones, Lloyd     Mr. Pip
Karnezis, Panos     Medical Ethics
Kaysen, Susanna     Girl, Interrupted
Keller, Evelyn Fox     Making Gender Visible in the Pursuit of Nature's Secrets
Kendrick, Leatha     Science in Your Own Back Yard
    Second Opinion
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
Kingsolver, Barbara     Animal Dreams
Klass, Perri     Love and Modern Medicine
Kneale, Matthew     Sweet Thames
Kovacic, Kristin, & Barrett, L., eds.     Birth: A Literary Companion
Krysl, Marilyn     Midwife and Other Poems on Caring
Kumin, Maxine     Inside the Halo and Beyond
L'Engle, Madeleine     The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
LaCombe, Michael     Playing God
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
Lamb, Cynthia     Brigid's Charge
Lamott, Anne     Blue Shoe
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Larkin, Joan     The Blackout Sonnets
Larsen, Nella     Quicksand
Larsson, Asa     The Blood Spilt
LaScala, Susan     Small Wonder: The Story of a Child Born Too Soon
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Leavitt, David     Equal Affections
Lee, Chang-rae     A Gesture Life
LeGuin, Ursula K.     The Space Crone
Lerner, Barron H.     The Breast Cancer Wars
Lessard, Suzannah     The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stanford White Family
Lessing, Doris     The Fifth Child
    To Room Nineteen
Levi, Carlo     Christ Stopped at Eboli
Lifshitz, L. H., ed.     Her Soul beneath the Bone: Women's Poetry on Breast Cancer
    Only Morning in Her Shoes: Poems About Old Women
Linton, Simi     My Body Politic
Lodge, David     The British Museum Is Falling Down
Lord, Catherine     The Summer of Her Baldness
Lorde, Audre     The Cancer Journals
Lurie, Alison     Foreign Affairs
    Love and Friendship
    The War between the Tates
Lynch, Thomas     Still Life in Milford
Mairs, Nancy     On Being a Cripple
    A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mamet, David     Oleanna
Mann, Thomas     The Black Swan
Manning, Margaret     Undercurrents: A Therapist's Reckoning with Her Own Depression
Mansfield, Katherine     In A German Pension: 13 Stories
    The Man Without a Temperament
Marchetto, Marisa Acocella     Cancer Vixen
Margolis, Leslie     Fix
Martin, Kimbra     Snapshots
Masson, Veneta     Rehab at the Florida Avenue Grill
Matuschka,     Barbie Gets Breast Cancer
Maugham, W. (William) Somerset     Of Human Bondage
McFarland, Dennis     Singing Boy
McFarlane, Donna     Division of Surgery
McKay, Ami     The Birth House
Mead, Rebecca     Eggs for Sale
Middlebrook, Christina     Seeing the Crab: A Memoir of Dying
Milton, Gladys     Why Not Me? The Story of Gladys Milton, Midwife
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     Fat and Blood: An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
Mokeddem, Malika     The Forbidden Woman
Montgomery, Judith H.     Mercury
Moore, Brian     The Doctor's Wife
Moraczewski, Thomas     Birth Sounds. Tales from Labor & Delivery
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
More, Ellen S.     Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine,1850-1995
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Munce, Alayna     When I Was Young and in My Prime
Munro, Alice     The Bear Came Over the Mountain
    Before the Change
    Floating Bridge
    The Office
Myers, Art     Winged Victory, Altered Images: Transcending Breast Cancer
Myers, K. R. & Schweizer, H., eds.     The Patient
Myers, K. R., ed.     Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Nafisi, Azar     Reading Lolita in Tehran
Nelson, Sharon H.     Premenstrual Syndrome
Nemirovsky, Irene     Fire in the Blood
    Suite Francaise
Newborn, Barbara     Return to Ithaca
Newman, Karen     Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality
Newman, Richard     Alma Rosé: Vienna to Auschwitz
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nielsen, Jerri     Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
Norris, Kathleen     Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Nuland, Sherwin B.     The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis
    The Wisdom of the Body
O'Connor, Mary Bradish     Say Yes Quickly
O'Hara, Frank     An Abortion
Oatley, Keith     A Natural History: A Novel
Olds, Sharon     35/10
    The Girl
    The Meal
Olsen, Sylvia     The Girl With a Baby
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin     The Mastectomy Poems
Parkman, Kathy M.     Everything That Falls Has Wings
Pastan, Linda     Notes from the Delivery Room
    Notes from the Delivery Room
    Routine Mammogram
Pears, Iain     An Instance of the Fingerpost
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Perillo, Lucia     I've Heard the Vultures Singing
Perkins, Fionna     The Changes
Perry, Anne     A Sudden, Fearful Death
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Phillips, Kate     White Rabbit
Picardie, Ruth     Before I Say Goodbye
Piercy, Marge     Homage to Lucille, Dr. Lord-Heinstein
    Something to Look Forward To
Plath, Sylvia     Barren Woman
    The Bell Jar
    Childless Woman
    Face Lift
    Heavy Women
    Lady Lazarus
    Three Women
    Tulips
Pollack, Eileen     Milk
Posen, Solomon     The Doctor in Literature: Satisfaction or Resentment?
Price Herndl, Diane     Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940
Prior, Jerilynn     Estrogen's Storm Season: Stories of Perimenopause
Prokosch, Frederic     A Tale for Midnight
Pym, Barbara     Quartet in Autumn
Quindlen, Anna     Black and Blue
Raeburn, Daniel     Vessels
Rankine, Claudia     Plot
Raz, H., ed.     Living on the Margins: Women Writers on Breast Cancer
Raz, Hilda     Divine Honors
Rich, Adrienne     A Woman Dead In Her Forties
Rinaldi, Ann     An Acquaintance with Darkness
Roney, Lisa     Sweet Invisible Body: Reflections on a Life with Diabetes
Rosenblum, Barbara     Cancer in Two Voices
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel     Body's Beauty
Rothman, Sheila     Living in the Shadow of Death
Rottman, S. L.     Head Above Water
Roy, Arundhati     The God of Small Things
Rudd, A. & Taylor, D., eds.     Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS
Sachs, Marilyn     The Fat Girl
Sapphire,     Push
Sarton, May     Recovering
Savitt, T. L., ed.     Medical Readers Theater: A Guide and Scripts
Schneiderman, Henry     Father, Doctor, and the Great City: Poems and Drawings 1964-2003
Schoemperlen, Diane     On Looking Further into the Bodies of Men
    Our Lady of the Lost and Found: A Novel
    The Spacious Chambers of Her Heart
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     So You're Going to Have a New Body !
Scully, Julia     Outside Passage
Sebold, Alice     Lucky
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Sexton, Anne     The Abortion
    The Operation
Shapiro, Alan     Vigil
Shaykh, Hanan al-     Inside a Moroccan Bath
Shelley, Percy Bysshe     The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts
Sherwood, Joan     Infection of the Innocents: Wet Nurses, Infants, and Syphilis in France
Shields, Carol     Unless
Showalter, Elaine     Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture
Shute, Jenefer P.     Life-Size
Silbert, Layle     Losses
Simonds, Merilyn     The Convict Lover: A True Story
Smith, Dave     Pregnant
Smith, Sybil     A Dog Named Hopi
Solwitz, Sharon     Mercy
Sontag, Susan     Alice in Bed
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Spann, C., ed.     Poet Healer: Contemporary Poems for Health & Healing
Spark, Debra     Last Things
Squiers, Carol     The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and Healing
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Stein, Gertrude     Three Lives
Stein, Michael     This Room Is Yours
Taylor, D. & Sumrall, A. C., eds.     Women of the 14th Moon: Writings on Menopause
Taylor, Kate     Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
Taylor, Sheila Ortiz     Coachella
Tougaw, Jason Daniel     Strange Cases: The Medical Case History and the British Novel
Townsend, Ann     Eighteenth-Century Medical Illustration: The Infant in Its Little Room
Urquhart, Jane     Away
    The Underpainter
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Vrettos, Athena     Somatic Fictions
Wadler, Joyce     My Breast
Wagner, Pamela Spiro     We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders
Walker, Alice     The Abortion
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Walsh, Elsa     Divided Lives: The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women
Warren, Rosalind     Outpatient
Weinberg, Richard B.     Communion
Weldon, Fay     A Libation of Blood
    The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Wendell, Susan     The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
Wertham, Fredric     Seduction of the Innocent
White, Kelley Jean     Late
Wilber, Ken     Grace and Grit
Williams, Lori Aurelia     Broken China
Williams, Terry Tempest     Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Williams, William Carlos     Complaint
    A Night in June
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Winter, Alison     Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
Wisenberg, S. (Sandi) L.     Big Ruthie Imagines Sex Without Pain
Wolitzer, Hilma     Mother
Wordsworth, William     To ----, in Her Seventieth Year
Wurtzel, Elizabeth     Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
Yalom, Irvin     Fat Lady
Yalom, Marilyn     A History of the Breast
Yglesias, Helen     Semi-Private
Yoshino, Kenji     Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
Young, Ian     The Private Life of Islam
Zelman, Cynthia     Our Menstruation
Zola, Emile     Nana