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A major book challenging the standard narrative on illegal abortion in important ways. I anticipate a wide audience for this updated edition."—Katha Pollitt, author of Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights  "A brutally frank, often shocking, and yet always uplifting tale about the abortion experience in Portland, Oregon, in the years before Roe v. Wade. Nowhere will you find a better argument for constitutional protection of choice."—Ellen Chesler, ...

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A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedomReproductive politics in the United States has always been about who has the power to decide-lawmakers, the courts, clergy, physicians, or the woman herself. Authorities have rarely put women's needs and interests at the center of these debates. Instead, they have created reproductive laws and policies to solve a variety of social and political problems, with outcomes that affect ...

A collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. This book describes grassroots projects in which communities use narrative as a way of exploring what a more just society might look like and what civic engagement means.

This powerful and shocking book is ideal for anyone seeking to understand the complex and disturbing politics surrounding issues of race, class, and reproductive rights. Elaine Tyler May, an esteemed historian, writes the Foreword.

A concise, comprehensive guide to reproductive politics in America

In Reproductive States, a group of international scholars explore the population politics, policies and practices adopted in various countries and offer reflections on the outcomes of those policies and their legacies.

In Reproductive States, a group of international scholars explore the population politics, policies and practices adopted in various countries and offer reflections on the outcomes of those policies and their legacies.

Reproductive politics was a term coined by feminists in the 1970s to describe contemporary power struggles over such issues as contraception and abortion, adoption and surrogacy, and this new guide presents a series of thoughtful answers to these hotly-contested issues.

Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from locations across the globea "including Uganda, Darfur, China, Afghanistan, South Africa, New Orleans, and Chicagoa "describe grassroots projects in which communities use narrative as a way of exploring what a more just society might look...

A provocative history of two-and-a-half centuries of battles over pregnancy and its consequences, explores the many forces--social, racial, economic, and political--that have shaped women's reproductive lives in the United States.

A brutally frank, often shocking, and yet always uplifting tale about the abortion experience in Portland, Oregon, in the years before Roe v. Wade. . . . Nowhere will you find a better argument for constitutional protection of choice."--Ellen Chesler, author of "Women of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

Explores the many forces - social, racial, economic, and political - that have shaped women's reproductive lives

“Striking, original, and stimulating. Even readers with extensive familiarity of the literature regarding women in prison will learn something new.”—Mona Danner, PhD Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice

An impassioned argument for reproductive rights In the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocates of legal abortion mostly used the term "rights "when describing their agenda. But after "Roe v. Wade, "their determination to develop a respectable, nonconfrontational movement encouraged many of them to use the word "choice--"an easier concept for people weary of various rights movements. At first the distinction in language didn't seem to make much ...

This powerful and shocking book is ideal for anyone seeking to understand the complex and disturbing politics surrounding issues of race, class, and reproductive rights. Elaine Tyler May, an esteemed historian, writes the Foreword.