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Books by or about Kathy Dettwyler

Dancing Skeletons
Dancing Skeletons
by Katherine Dettwyler

Breastfeeding:
Biocultural Perspectives

Edited by Patricia Stuart-Macadam
and Katherine Dettwyler
paperback version

Breastfeeding: A Mother's Gift
Breastfeeding:
A Mother's Gift

by Pamela K. Wiggins
foreward by Katherine Dettwyler

Breasts
Breasts :
The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession

by Carolyn Latteier
(Kathy Dettwyler is profiled in this book)

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Breastfeeding and Parenting Books

BF: Holistic Handbook
Breastfeeding :
A Holistic Handbook

by Eve Adamson, Maureen Kays
How to Really Love Your Child
How to Really Love Your Child

by Ross Campbell
(Christian focus, but good advice for anyone, even us Unitarian Universalists)
Attachment Parenting
Attachment Parenting:
Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child

by Katie A. Granju
Mothering Multiples
by Karen Gromada
Nursing Mother's Companion
The Nursing Mother's Companion

by Kathleen Huggins
Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing :
How Ecological Breastfeeding Spaces Babies

by Sheila K. Kippley
Breastfeeding Your Baby
Breastfeeding Your Baby

by Sheila Kitzinger, Sheila, Nancy Durrell McKenna (Photographer)
Womanly Art
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

La Leche League International
Breastfeeding : A Guide for the Medical Profession
by Ruth A. Lawrence, Robert M. Lawrence
Breastfeeding Answer Book
The Breastfeeding Answer Book

by Nancy Mohrbacher and Julie Stock
Nursing Mother, Working Mother
Nursing Mother, Working Mother :
The Essential Guide for Breastfeeding and Staying Close to Your Baby After You Return to Work

by Gale Pryor
Nursing Your Baby
Nursing Your Baby

by Karen Pryor, Gale Pryor (Contributor)
BF: Getting It Right for You
Bestfeeding :
Getting Breastfeeding Right for You :
An Illustrated Guide

by Mary Renfrew, Chloe Fisher (Contributor), Suzanne Arms  (Contributor)
Breastfeeding and Human Lactation
Jan Riordan and Kathleen Auerbach
(big, expensive, good)
Breasts
Breasts: Our Most Public Private Parts

by Meema Spadola
Babies with Down Syndrome
Babies With Down Syndrome
(The Special-Needs Collection)

by Karen Stray-Gundersen (Editor)
So That's What They're For!
So That's What They're For! :
Breastfeeding Basics

by Janet Tamaro
(This one's full of humor)

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Patient No More : The Politics of Breast Cancer
by Sharon Batt

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Not Now... I'm Having a No Hair Day: 
Humor & Healing for People With Cancer

by Christine Clifford, Jack Lindstrom (Illustrator)
Our Family Has Breast Cancer, Too
Our Family Has Cancer, Too!

by Christine Clifford, Jack Lindstrom (Illustrator)
My Healing from Breast Cancer
My Healing from Breast Cancer

by Barbara Joseph, Phyllis Herman (Editor)
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Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book

by Susan M. Love, Karen Lindsey (Illustrator), Marcia Williams (Illustrator)
Love, Ruth
Love, Ruth: A Son's Memoir

by Charles Candler Lovett
The Red Devil
The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer--And Back

by Katherine Russell Rich

Teratologies : A Cultural Study of Cancer
by Jackie Stacey

 
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Nonfiction Kathy Recommends

Cancer in the Community:
Class and Medical Authority

by Martha Balshem

Expecting Adam
Expecting Adam:
A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

by Martha Nibley Beck
(Brilliant, funny, heart-breaking book about that subset of children with Down Syndrome who also happen to be angels/spirits)

A Chosen Faith
A Chosen Faith : An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism

by John A. Buehrens, F. Forrester Church, Robert Fulghum, Denise Davidoff (Preface)
(for more on UUism, visit the UUA home page)

Culture of Intolerance
Culture of Intolerance:
Chauvinism, Class, and Racism in the United States

by Mark Nathan Cohen
That Complex Whole : Culture and the Evolution of Human Behavior
by Lee Cronk
Adaptation and Human Behavior : An Anthropolotical Perspective (Evolutionary Foundations of Human Behavior)
by Lee Cronk (Editor), Napoleon Chagnon (Editor), William Irons (Editor)
(this will be published in October 1999)
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language:
Hereditary Deafness on Marthas Vineyard

by Nora Ellen Groce, John W. M. Whiting 
King of the Confessors
by Thomas Hoving
Birth in Four Cultures:
A Crosscultural Investigation of
Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden,
and the United States

by Brigitte Jordan
A Yupiaq Worldview
A Yupiaq Worldview : A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit

by A. Oscar Kawagley
Into the Wild
Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer
Waiting for Rain
Waiting for Rain :
Life and Development in Mali, West Africa

by Lewis W. Lucke
Beyond Civilization
Beyond Civilization :
Humanity's Next Great Adventure

by Daniel Quinn
Evolutionary Medicine
(paperback)
Evolutionary Medicine
(hardcover)
by Wenda Trevathan (Editor), James J. McKenna (Editor), Euclid O. Smith (Editor)
Big Bend Country
Land of the Desert Sun:
Texas' Big Bend Country
(hardcover)
D. Gentry Steele, photographer
Land of the Desert Sun:
Texas' Big Bend Country
(paperback)
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Novels Kathy Recommends

Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson

The Big Sky
The Big Sky

by Alfred B. Guthrie

The Bone People
The Bone People

by Keri Hulme

The Far Pavilions
The Far Pavilions

by M.M. Kaye
The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Stories

by Rudyard Kipling
Gone South
Gone South

by Robert R. McCammon
Caravans
Caravans

by James A. Michener
Coming Home
Coming Home

by Rosamunde Pilcher
September
September

by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Shell Seekers
The Shell Seekers

by Rosamunde Pilcher
Ishmael
Ishmael

By Daniel Quinn
Anna's Book
Anna's Book

by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine

In a Dry Season : A Novel of Suspense
by Peter Robinson
Angle of Repose
Angle of Repose

by Wallace Stegner
The Gate to Women's Country
The Gate to Women's Country

by Sheri S. Tepper
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Children's Books to Enjoy

Cloudy with a Chanceof Meatballs
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

by Judith Barrett, Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett (Illustrator)

I Eat at Mommy's
I Eat at Mommy's

by Anna E. Bradley-McBeth

(a brand-new book that, in the author's words, "playfully confronts the awkwardness displayed by the adult world regarding breastfeeding, but through the innocent eyes of young children."

Love You Forever
Love You Forever

by Sheila McGraw (Illustrator), Robert N. Munsch

Michele
Michele : The Nursing Toddler

by Jane M. Pinczuk, Jane Pinczuic, Barbara Murray (Illustrator)

The Man Who Loved Clowns
The Man Who Loved Clowns

by June Rae Wood

Breasts
by Genichiro Yagyu, Gen'ichiro Yagyu, Amanda M. Stinehecum (Translator)
(This is from a series of books about different body parts and is funny and tasteful)
All About Scabs
All About Scabs

(My Body Science Series)
by Genichiro Yagyu, Yagyu Genichiro, Geniehiro Yagyu, Amanda M. Stinchecum (Translator)
(this and the next two are others in this series)
The holes in your nose
The Holes in Your Nose

(My Body Science Series)
by Genichiro Yagyu, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum (Translator)
Everybody Poops
Everyone Poops

by Taro Gomi, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum (Translator)
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Music

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Sutras

by Donovan

Louis
Louis Armstrong's Greatest Hits
JD, SAK's old flame
Poems, Prayers, And Promises

by  John Denver

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