Selected Bibliography

Benjamin, Ruha. The People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier. Stanford University Press, 2013.

Brown, Elsa Barkley. “” What Has Happened Here”: The Politics of Difference in Women’s History and Feminist Politics.” Feminist Studies 18.2 (1992): 295-312.

Harris, Trudier. Exorcising Blackness: Historical and Literary Lynching and Burning Rituals. Indiana University Press, 1984.

Hogarth, Rana A. Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Holloway, Karla FC. Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics. 1 edition. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2011.

Kapsalis, Terri. Public Privates: Performing Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum. Duke University Press, 1997

McGregor, Deborah Kuhn. From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology. Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Mustakeem, Sowande M. Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Owens, Deirdre Cooper. Medical Bondage - Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology. University of Georgia Press, 15. 

Reiss, Benjamin. The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America. Harvard University Press, 2001.

Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Random House LLC, 2014.

Schwartz, Marie Jenkins. Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South. Harvard University Press, 2010.

Sims, J. Marion, and H. Marion-Sims. The Story of My Life. New York: D. Appleton and company, 1884.

Skloot, Rebecca, and Bahni Turpin. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown Publishers New York, 2010.

Somerville, Soibhan. Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, ed. Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 2002.

Washington, Harriet A. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present. Random House LLC, 2006.