# Carrie N. Baker

Carrie N. Baker is an American lawyer, the Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies, and Chair of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She teaches courses on gender, law, public policy and feminist activism, and is affiliated with the archives concentration, the journalism concentration and the public policy minor. She co-founded and is a former co-director of the certificate in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Program offered by the Five College Consortium.
Baker has published five books: The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Sexual Harassment Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2020), Public Feminisms: From Academy to Community, edited with Aviva Dove-Viebahn. (Lever Press, 2023), and Abortion Pills: US History and Politics (Amherst College Press, 2024). She has also written many scholarly articles on sexual harassment, sex trafficking, violence against women and reproductive rights.
Baker writes for Ms. Magazine and co-chairs the Ms. Committee of Scholars, which connects academic scholarship to feminist public writing. She has a monthly column in the Daily Hampshire Gazette and has a monthly radio show, Feminist Futures, on WHMP in Northampton, MA. She is a former president of the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts and is currently a board member of Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts.

## Education

Baker received a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1987, a J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1994, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from The Institute of Women's Studies at Emory University in 1994 and 2001 respectively. While in law school, she was editor-in-chief of the Emory Law Journal and, from 1994 to 1996, she served as a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Marvin Herman Shoob in Atlanta, Georgia.

## Teaching

Before teaching at Smith College, Baker taught at the Berry College in the department of Sociology and Anthropology. She also chaired the Women's Studies Program and directed the Interdisciplinary Studies Program.

## Awards

Her first book, The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment, won the 2008 National Women's Studies Association Sara A. Whaley book prize.
For her teaching, Baker was awarded the 2006 Dave and Lu Garrett Award for Meritorious Teaching at Berry College, the 2018 Student Government Association Annual Teaching Award at Smith College, and the 2020 Sherrerd Teaching Award at Smith College.

## Scholarly Articles

Published Scholarly Articles :
| Year | Journal | Title |
| 2023 | Journal of Health Politics, Law and Policy | Duke University Press | History and Politics of Medication Abortion and the Rise of Telemedicine and Self-Managed Abortion |
| 2021 | Contraception | Access to Medication Abortion Among Massachusetts’ Public University Students |
| 2021 | Penn Program on Regulation | Supreme Court Reinstates Barriers to Abortion by Telemedicine |
| 2020 | ADVANCE Journal | National Science Foundation | Amplification of Structural Inequalities: Research Sabbaticals During COVID-19 |
| 2020 | Feminist Formations | Johns Hopkins University Press | Amplifying Our Voices: Feminist Scholars Writing for the Public |
| 2018 | Feminist Formations | Johns Hopkins University Press | Teaching to Empower |
| 2018 | Politics & Gender | Cambridge University Press | Racialized Rescue Narratives in Public Discourses on Youth Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States |
| 2017 | Violence Against Women | SAGE Journals | Challenging Narratives of the Anti-Rape Movement’s Decline |
| 2016 | Journal of Women, Politics & Policy | Taylor & Francis Online | Obscuring Gender-Based Violence: Marriage Promotion and Teen Dating Violence Research |
| 2015 | Journal of Human Trafficking | An Examination of Some Central Debates on Sex Trafficking in Research and Public Policy in the United States |
| 2014 | Meridians | Duke University Press | An Intersectional Analysis of Sex Trafficking Films |
| 2013 | Journal of Feminist Scholarship | University of Rhode Island | Moving Beyond “Slaves, Sinners, and Saviors”: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of US SexTrafficking Discourses, Law and Policy |
| 2008 | Journal of Women, Politics & Policy | Taylor & Francis Online | Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain! Power, Privacy, and the Legal Regulation of Violence Against Women |
| 2007 | Journal of Women's History | Johns Hopkins University Press | The Emergence of Organized Feminist Resistance to Sexual Harassment in the United States in the 1970s |
| 2005 | NWSA Journal | Johns Hopkins University Press | "An Orchid in the Arctic": Women's Studies in the Rural South |
| 2004 | Feminist Studies | Race, Class, and Sexual Harassment in the 1970s |