Women’s History Month Public Health Reading List

Explore books and articles recommended by Yale School of Public Health faculty, staff, students, and alumni.

Books: Nonfiction

• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
• Fighting for Life by S. Josephine Baker
• Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• I’m Telling the Truth but I'm Lying by Bassey Ikpi
• Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini
• Know My Name by Chanel Miller
• Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir by Dorothy Height
• The Other Side of Silence by Urvashi Butalia
• Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on The Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa

Books: Fiction

• Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
• When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar

Articles

• Goddard-Durant, S. K., Doucet, A., Tizaa, H., & Sieunarine, J. A. (2022, August 5). A decolonizing, intersectional, Black feminist approach to young Black Caribbean-Canadian mothers’ resilience. Journal of Family Studies, 1–21.
• Gogovor, A., Zomahoun, H. T. V., Ekanmian, G., Adisso, É. L., Deom Tardif, A., Khadhraoui, L., Rheault, N., Moher, D., & Légaré, F. (2021). Sex and gender considerations in reporting guidelines for health research: A systematic review. Biology of Sex Differences, 12(1), 62.
• Janko. (2013). Elouise Cobell: A Small Measure of Justice. American Indian Magazine, 14(2).
• Kostas-Polston, E.A., Witkop, C.T., Degutis, L.C., Rosenbaum, S., Wood, S.F. (2023, March - April). Assuring TRICARE Coverage of Preventive Health Services for Women Beneficiaries of the Military Health System. Military Medicine, 188(1), 24–30.
• Soisson. (2023, February 21). How a Virginia Physician’s Abortion Nearly 50 Years Ago Helped Her Have the Family and Medical Career She Dreamed Of. Vadogwood.com.
• Witkop, C.T., Kostas-Polston, E.A, Degutis, L.C. (2023, March - April). Improving the Health and Readiness of Military Women. Military Medicine, 188(1), 8–14.