I. Birthing histories. Queen Elizabeth Perry Turner : "granny midwife" 1931-1956 / Darline Turner
Regulating childbirth : physicians and granny midwives in South Carolina / Alicia D. Bonaparte
Between traditional knowledge and western medicine : women birthing in post-colonial Zimbabwe / Christina Mudokwenyu-Rawdon, Peggy Dube, Nester T. Moyo, and Stephen Munjanja
II. Beyond medical versus natural : redefining birth injustice. An abolitionist mama speaks : on natural birth and miscarriage / Viviane Saleh-Hanna
Mothering : a post-C-section journey / Jacinda Townsend
Confessions of a Black pregnant dad / Syrus Marcus Ware
Birth justice and population control / Loretta J. Ross
Beyond silence and stigma : pregnancy and HIV for Black women in Canada / Marvelous Muchenje and Victoria Logan Kennedy
What I carry : a story of love and loss / Iris Jacob
Images from the safe motherhood quilt / Ina May Gaskin and Laura Gilkey
III. Changing lives, one birth at a time. Birthing sexual freedom and healing : a survivor mother's birth story / Biany Pérez
Birth as battle cry : a doula's journey from home to hospital / Gina Mariela Rodríguez
Sister midwife : nurturing and reflecting black womanhood in an urban hospital / Stephanie Etienne
A love letter for my daughter : love as a political act / Haile Eshe Cole
New visions in birth, intimacy, kinship, and sisterly partnerships / Shannon Gibney and Valerie Deus
I am my hermana's keeper : reclaiming Afro-indigenous ancestral wisdom as a doula / Griselda Rodriguez
The first cut Is the deepest : a mother/daughter conversation about birth, justice, healing, and love / Pauline Ann McKenzie-Day and Alexis Pauline Gumbs
IV. Taking back our power : organizing for birth justice. Unexpected allies : obstetrician activism, VBACs, and the birth justice movement / Christ-Ann Magloire and Julia Chinyere Oparah
Birthing freedom : Black American midwifery and liberation struggles / Ruth Hays
Becoming an outsider-within : Jennie Joseph and Florida midwifery / Alicia D. Bonaparte and Jennie Joseph
Beyond shackling : prisons, pregnancy, and birth justice / Priscilla A. Ocen and Julia Chinyere Oparah.
