Section: Family & relationships

8 Keys to Raising the Quirky Child: How to Help a Kid Who Doesn't (Quite) Fit in

Mark Bowers

A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China

Cai Hua and Asti Hustvedt

Abolish the Family

Sophie Lewis

Above Ground

Clint Smith

African American Families Today: Myths and Realities

Angela J. Hattery

All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

Lisa Appignanesi

All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion

Lisa Appignanesi

All About Love: New Visions

bell hooks

Ask Me about Polyamory: The Best of Kimchi Cuddles

Tikva Wolf

Babygate: How to Survive Pregnancy and Parenting in the Workplace

Dina Bakst, Phoebe Taubman, and Elizabeth Gedmark

Be a Father to Your Child: Real Talk from Black Men on Family, Love, and Fatherhood

April R Silver

Between Monogamy & Polyamory / Beyond the Maps: Towards Cooperative Love

Shuley Cantor and Orlando Marion

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close

Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta

Ina May Gaskin and Ani Difranco

Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work

Jenny Brown

Bodies on the Line: At the Frontlines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America

Lauren Rankin

Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls

Sonya Renee Taylor

Consensuality: Navigating Feminism, Gender, and Boundaries Towards Loving Relationships

Helen Windfell

Considering Parenthood

Cheri Pies

Creating Consent Culture: A Handbook for Educators

Marcia Baczynski and Erica Scott

De-escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 seconds or Less

Douglass E. Noll

Dear Ijeawele: Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence

Leigh Goodmark

Designer Relationships: A Handbook for the Monogamous, the Nonmonogamous and the Rest of Us

Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson

Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India

Sharmila Rudrappa

Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities

Victoria Law and China Martens

Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family

Natalie D. Meisner

Dragonslippers: This is what an Abusive Relationship Looks Like

Rosalind B. Penfold

Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home

Kate Mangino

Everyday Illegal

Joanna Dreby

Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care

M. E. O'Brien

Family Activism: Empowering Your Community, Beginning with Family and Friends

Roberto Vargas

Fat and Fertile: How to Get Pregnant in a Bigger Body

Nicola Salmon

Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering

Dorsía Smith Silva and Simone A. James Alexander

Full Surrogacy Now

Sophie Anne Lewis

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor's Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices

Sarah J. Buckley, M.D. and Ina May Gaskin (introduction)

Ghostbelly

Elizabeth Heineman

Go the F**k to Sleep

Adam Mansbach and Ricardo Cortés

Helping Your Transgender Teen, 2nd Edition: A Guide for Parents

Irwin Krieger

Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

Gordon Neufeld (Author) and Gabor Mate (Author)

How Chinese Are You?: Adopted Chinese Youth and Their Families Negotiate Identity and Culture

Andrea Louie

How to Raise an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

How to Support Your Non-Binary Family Member

How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood

Trystan Reese

How We Show Up: Building Community in These Fractured Times

Mia Birdsong

In Sickness and in Health: Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Interabled Romance

Ben Mattlin

In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation

Isabel Zapata

Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding

Ina May Gaskin

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Ina May Gaskin

Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women

Mignon Moore

It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood

Frida Berrigan

It's Called Polyamory: Coming Out about Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

Tamara Pincus and Rebecca Hiles

Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 3, Partners

Gavin Van Horn, Robin Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer

Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating

Moira Weigel

Learning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships & Survivor Support

cindy crabb (Editor)

Legalizing Lgbt Families: How the Law Shapes Parenthood

Amanda Baumle and D'Lane Compton

Let's Get This Straight: The Ultimate Handbook for Youth with LGBTQ Parents

Tina Fakhrid-Deen and COLAGE

Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

Angela Garbes

Love Always: Partners of Trans People on Intimacy, Challenge, and Resilience

Jordon Johnson and Becky Garrison

Love WITH Accountability

Aishah Shahidah Simmons and Darnell L. Moore

Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities

Kevin A. Patterson (Author)

Making Sense of "it": A Guide to Sex for Teens (and Their Parents, Too!)

Alison Macklin

Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle

Nina LaCour and Kaylani Juanita (Illustrator)

Mama's Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression

Marlo D. David

Mindful Masculinity Workbook: A Practical Guide to Healthier Masculinity

Rocco Kayiatos

More Than Two: A practical guide to ethical polyamory

Franklin Veaux (Author), Tatiana Gill (Illustrator), and Paul Mendoza (Illustrator)

MOTHERCARE: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence

Lynne Tillman

My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities

Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman, and Sarah Talbot

My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us

Jessica Mills and Jessica Mills

Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy--A Polyamory Memoir

Rachel Krantz

Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

Tristan Taormino

Parental Incarceration and the Family: Psychological and Social Effects of Imprisonment on Children, Parents, and Caregivers

Joyce A. Arditti

Parenting for Liberation

Trina Greene Brown

Parenting Without God: How to Raise Moral, Ethical, and Intelligent Children, Free from Religious Dogma

Dan Arel

Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminal Costs of Motherhood

Michele Goodwin

Polyamory and Pregnancy

Jessica Burde

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

Power Circuits: Polyamory in a Power Dynamic

Raven Kaldera

Practicing Feminist Mothering

Fiona Joy Green

Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers

Lynne Haney

Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-To-Be

Kristin Liam Kali

Queering Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives

Margaret F. Gibson

Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood

Tomas Moniz and Jeremy Adam Smith

Rad Families: A Celebration

Thomas Moniz (Author) and Ariel Gore (Foreward)

Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide

Britt Hawthorne

Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child

Ross W. Greene

Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting

Kyl Myers

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America

Jennifer Harvey

Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade

Sara Matthiesen

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Frontlines

Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Author), Mai'a Williams (Author), and China Martens (Editor)

Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood

Jessica Grose

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

Nedra Glover Tawwab

Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules

Sarah Mirk (Author)

Social Experiences of Breastfeeding: Building Bridges Between Research, Policy and Practice

Sally Dowling, Kate Boyer, and David Pontin

Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America

Stacey Patton

Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life

Amy Gahran

Stories from the Polycule: Real Life in Polyamorous Families

Elisabeth Sheff

Supporting Queer Birth

Aj Silver

Supporting Trans People of Colour: How to Make Your Practice Inclusive

Sabah Choudrey

The Anti-Social Family

Michele Barrett (Author) and Mary McIntosh (Author)

The Complete Book of Breastfeeding

Marvin S. Eiger and Sally Wendkos Olds

The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships

Harriet Lerner

The Don't Before I Do

Emily McKnight

The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth

Marshall H. Klaus (Author) and Phyllis H. Klaus (Author)

The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love

Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton

The Every Body Book: The LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families

Rachel E. Simon

The First Six Weeks: The Tried-and-Tested Guide That Shows You How to Have a Happy, Healthy Sleeping Baby

Midwife Cath

The First-Time Parent's Childbirth Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide for Building Your Birth Plan

Stephanie Mitchell

The Gender Identity Guide for Parents: Compassionate Advice to Help Your Child Be Their Most Authentic Self

Tavi Hawn

The Hearts of Being Polysecure: Creating Secure Attachments in Multiple Relationships

Jessica Fern

The Jealousy Workbook: Exercises and Insights for Managing Open Relationships

Kathy Labriola

The Movement for Reproductive Justice

Patricia Zavella

The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

Krys Malcolm Belc

The No Worries Guide to Raising Your Anxious Child: A Handbook to Help You and Your Anxious Child Thrive

Karen Lynn Cassiday

The Polyamorists Next Door

Elizabeth Sheff

The Polyamory Breakup Book: Causes, Prevention, and Survival

Kathy Labriola

The Reflective Workbook for Partners of Transgender People: Your Transition As Your Partner Transitions

DENISE. MAYNARD

The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution

Ann Travers

The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure: Erotic Exploration for Men and Their Partners

Ph.D. Charlie Glickman, Aislinn Emirzian, Debby Herbenick, and Carol Queen

They Call It Love

Alva Gotby

This Heart Holds Many: My Life As the Nonbinary Millennial Child of a Polyamorous Family

Koe Creation

This Is How We Survive: Revolutionary Mothering, War, and Exile in the 21st Century

Mai'a Williams

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Cheryl Strayed

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

Dorothy Roberts

Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century

Tey Meadow

Transgender Intimate Partner Violence

Adam M. Messinger and Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz

Transitions: The Development of Children of Immigrants

Carola Suárez-Orozco, Mona Abo-Zena, and Amy Marks

Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child

Telaina Eriksen

We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood

Dani McClain

What Does Consent Really Mean?

Pete Wallis

Whatever Arises, Love That: A Love Revolution That Begins with You

Matt Kahn

When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, with a New Preface

Leslie J. Reagan

When Boys Become Boys: Development, Relationships, and Masculinity

Judy Y. Chu

When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous: A Guide to Understanding Poly People and Relationships

Elisabeth Sheff

When the Welfare People Come: Race and Class in the US Child Protection System

Don Lash (Author)

Who Are You?: The Kid's Guide to Gender and Identity

Brook Pessin-Whedbee

Why Did No One Tell Me This?: The Doulas' (Honest) Guide for Expectant Parents

Natalia Hailes and Ash Spivak

You Have to Fucking Eat

Adam Mansbach

You Know, Sex: Bodies, Gender, Puberty, and Other Things

Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth

You-Ology: A Puberty Guide for Every Body

Trish Hutchison, Kathryn Lowe, and Melisa Holmes