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TITLE | AUTHOR(S)/EDITOR(S) | PUBLISHER | YEAR | SUMMARY | [NAME])
Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood | [NAME] | University of California Press | 1984 | Luker’s book examines the different and conflicting world views that shape both the pro-life and pro-choice movements.  She argues that because one’s world view is by definition “those parts of life we take for granted, never imagine questioning, and cannot envision decent, moral people not sharing,” a fundamental difference in world views necessarily creates “outrage and vindictiveness” when these world views clash over an issue like abortion. | Abortion
Abortion: The Clash of the Absolutes | [NAME] | W.W. Norton & Company 1992 (1990) | 1990 | The majority of the book focuses on setting out the debate itself and the social, political, and legal frameworks that encompass each side and color the terms of the debate.  It provides a surprisingly comprehensive and readable history of the development of reproductive rights from Roe to [NAME]. | Abortion
Decoding Abortion Rhetoric: Communicating Social Change | [NAME] | University of Illinois Press | 1990 | Condit provides a close look at how pro-life and pro-choice arguments have helped shape the development of public policy and private practice. She offers readers an orderly way through the barrage of rhetoric. | Abortion
Legal Issues in Biotechnology and Human Reproduction: Artificial Conception and Modern Genetics | [NAME] | Quorum Books | 1991 | With advances in biological engineering and human reproduction, society is confronted with legal, ethical, and religious dilemmas. Freedman gives us a comprehensive examination of the subjects by sorting through the various issues surrounding artificial insemination, surrogate motherhood, and other aspects of contemporary reproductive and technology trends. | Assisted reproductive technology (ART), reproduction
The Criminalization of a Woman's Body (Women & Criminal Justice Series) | [NAME] | Routledge | 1992 | This book addresses the ominous trend in legislation and court decision sthat regulate and criminalize the actions of women (particularly women of color) and the control of their bodies. | Women of color, regulation, legislation, control, government, racism
Violence Against Women: A Gender and Society Reader | [NAME] and [NAME]. | Sage Publications | 1992 | Well-known writers on women's issues discuss the patriarchal ideologies and social structures that promote the gender-motivated violence and sexual aggression of obscene phone calls, workplace harassment, pornography, rape, incest, and murder. | Women, gender, sexual violence
A Question of Choice | [NAME] | Penguin | 1993 | Weddington, at 27 years old, won the Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion in America.  This book recounts her amazing story of how she, her husband and few other pro-choice lawyers and doctors invoked the right to privacy defense before the court. Certain conditions affecting access to abortion, like limited funding and services, have made the author speak out for the preservation of freedom of choice. | Abortion
Understanding the New Politics of Abortion | [NAME], [NAME]. | Sage Publications | 1993 | This compilation of essays looks at abortion from a political science perspective.  Since the book was published a decade ago, some of the arguments and most of the empirical data is out of date, but it provides an incredibly useful framework for looking at the nature and scope of the conflict in the political battle over abortion rights. | Abortion
Beyond the Numbers: A Reader on Population, Consumption, and the Environment | [NAME], [NAME], [NAME], [NAME] | Island Press | 1994 | This book presents a thought-provoking series of essays by leading authorities on issues of population and consumption. | Population, consumption, environment
Gender Outlaw | [NAME] | Vintage Publishing | 1995 | Bornstein offers a unique view of gender while taking you with her through her life and sex change. | Transgender, gender, memoir
[NAME]: Transsexual Portraits | [NAME] | Cleis Press | 1996 | Cameron uses his photography to take readers through his life, and the lives of some other FTMs. | Trangender, gender, identity, photography
Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy | [NAME] | Harvard University Press | 1997 | Luker's book discusses the history of America's obsession with teen pregnancy. Her main point is that pregnancy not a cause of poverty, but a measurement of it.  This book has great statistical information, but also interviews with pregnant teens. | Abortion, teen pregnancy, contraception, birth control, poverty
Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic | [NAME] and Zita Lazzarini | Oxford University Press, USA | 1997 | The authors argue for a synergy between public health and human rights work in the context of the AIDS pandemic, connecting health, human dignity, and individual rights. | Human rights, HIV/AIDS
RePlacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy | [NAME] | The Guilford Press | 1997 | This book urges us to take on the rights and responsibilities of political citizens within our communities as an activity of radical democracy, through the lens of the author's AIDS activism in Vancouver. | HIV/AIDS
The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Faminist Abortion Service | [NAME] | University of Chicago Press | 1997 | From 1969 until 1973, a group of Chicago women formed a loose underground organization to aid women who needed abortions (then illegal) to get them as safely and inexpensively as possible. They called the service "[NAME]" and worked out a set of complicated procedures to keep both themselves and their clients out of jail. At first they handled referrals to willing doctors, but later the women were taught by an expert to do the abortions themselves, which enabled them to serve women with financial need. They also provided health education and counseling to the 11,000 women who came to [NAME]. | Abortion, [NAME], underground
Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000 | [NAME]. | University of California Press | 1998 | This book is a compilation of essays on abortion and reproductive rights taken from a variety of disciplines including psychology, philosophy, political science, medicine, and law.  I would recommend the book as a way to get a grasp of the shifting reproductive rights debate from a number of different perspectives. | Abortion
Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy networks in International Politics | [NAME] and [NAME] | Cornell University Press | 1998 | The authors explore coalition and movement building on an international scale. | International
Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition | [NAME] and [NAME]. | Routledge | 1998 | This book is a collection of essays written by scholars, activists, and grassroots organization leaders.  It discusses studies concerning both male and female sex workers who are coming primarily out of developing countries and explores the social and economic issues of the sex industry. | International, sex work, prostitution
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty | [NAME] | Vintage Publishing | 1998 | [NAME] takes the mainstream feminist movement to task for working mostly for the "negative right" of liberty, that is, the right of women to not have the government involved in their reproductive decision-making. To [NAME] this debate, focused mainly on government non-interference, ignores issues especially important to African American women such as access to contraception or reproductive technologies. "Reproductive freedom is a matter of social justice," she says, stating further that it is social inequality, more than any legal interference, that severely limits African American women's ability to choose how and whether to have children. [NAME] passionately discusses how African American women have been engaged in an ongoing fight to gain control of their reproductive rights from the early days of slavery through the governments use of the long-term contraceptive Norplant in African American communities. | Race, gender, Black, African American women, racism, violence, reproductive justice
Negotiating Reproductive Rights | [NAME], [NAME], IRRRAG, eds. | [NAME] | 1998 | Cultural, religious, social, and political forces all interact to define the meaning of reproductive rights as well as to prescribe the extent to which these rights can be realized. IRRRAG researched reproductive rights in seven countries: Brazil, Egypt, Peninsular Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, and three U.S. communities. The main body of this book reports on IRRRAG's findings on such issues as access to healthcare and information about sexuality and family planning; changing economic and social realities vs. traditional practices and roles; and the variety and complexity of points of view even within the same country. In the final chapter, editors [NAME] (political science, CUNY) and [NAME] (a consultant and editor affiliated with the Ctr. for Global Solutions in New York), while acknowledging cultural and national differences, summarize some themes they found that transcend these boundaries. | International, reproductive rights, reproductive health, population control,
The Abortion Controversy | [NAME] | Praeger | 1998 | Overview and summaries of court cases, major issues and movements for and against abortion, documents related to a Human Life Amendment and other proposed legislation, and summary of national party platforms on the issues,  and information on recent issues, such as abortion clinic violence and public opinion polls showing support for legal abortion. | Abortion, case law, government, regulation
When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and the Law in the United States, 1867-1973 | [NAME] | University of California Press | 1998 | [NAME] chronicles the ways in which women sought to end their pregnancies in the days before abortion was legalized. | Abortion, [NAME], underground
Against Relativism: Cultural Diversity and the Search for Ethical Universals in Medicine | [NAME] | Oxford University Press, USA | 1999 | This book provides an analysis of the debate surrounding cultural diversity, and attempts to reconcile the seemingly opposing views of "ethical imperialism," the belief that each individual is entitled to fundamental human rights, and cultural relativism, the belief that ethics must be relative to particular cultures and societies. | cultural diversity, relativism, ethics, medicine
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control | Betsey Hartmann | South End Press, revised ed. | 1999 | This revised edition of a feminist classic adds new information on AIDS, contraception, and the anti-abortion movement as it probes world patterns of population and reproduction control and its meaning for the future. Rapid population growth is here linked to economic and social problems in chapters which provide strong keys to understanding world population patterns. | International, population control, reproductive rights
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue | [NAME] | Beacon Press | 1999 | [NAME] offers an excellent view of oppression based on gender and gender expression. | Transgender, identity, gender, LGBTQIQ
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center | [NAME] and [NAME] | South End Press; 2nd edition | 2000 | [NAME] takes a critical view of modern mainstream feminism, pointing out the intersections between race, class, and gender for people of color and people in poverty and the racism and classism limiting feminist dialogue. | feminism, Women of Color, racism, gender, poverty, class
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade | [NAME] | Routledge | 2000 | An exploration of single pregnancy from 1945 to 1965. Shows the strikingly different treatments of middle-class white and poor black pregnant teenagers clearly reflected the demands of a racist, family-centered economy. Argues that reproductive rights must not only guard each woman's choice to use contraception or to terminate a pregnancy, but also must win honor and social support for each woman's choice to become a mother. | Abortion, single parent, minors, adoption
From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice | [NAME], [NAME], [NAME], and [NAME] | Cambridge Univeristy Press | 2001 | Equal opportunity, distributive justice, inclusion, and reproductive freedom are discussed in depth in an analysis of how these concepts relate to genetic technologies. | genetics, techbology, reproduction,
Sexual Identities, Queer Politics | [NAME]. | Princeton University Press | 2001 | Contributors explore queer politics in the U.S. and internationally from a political science perspective. | LGBTQIQ
[NAME] and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States | [NAME] | Hill and Wang | 2002 | Solinger examines messaging and political strategy in the reproductive rights movement and the limitations of the current "choice" model. | reproductive rights, messaging, rhetoric, political strategy, Choice, abortion, adoption, child welfare
Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States | [NAME]. | Greenwood Press | 2002 | Focusing primarily on the late-20th-century US, [NAME]'s encyclopedia further develops information in existing reference works on birth control, abortion, and women's rights. [NAME] to multipage articles consider not only laws, court cases, political attitudes, technological advances, and prominent activists and organizations, but also experiences of various racial, ethnic, age, class, ability, and religious groups concerning issues related to reproduction | Reproductive rights
Policing the National Body: Race, Gender, and Criminalization in the United States | [NAME] and [NAME] | South End Press | 2002 | This collection of essays places issue of race, class, and gender at the center of the reproductive rights and social justice agendas by focusing on a key concern among women of color and poor communities today - the difficulty of maintaining families and sustaining community in the face of inreasing criminalization and surveillance. The authors focus on the effects of increasing criminalization on women and families in poor communities and communities of color.  It presents the experiences of women prisoners, immigrants, sex workers, and other oppressed groups, linking anti-enforcement politics with reproductive justice. | Women of Color, race, gender, criminalization, poverty, reproductive oppression
21st Century Guide to Civil Rights at the U.S. Justice Department: Civil Rights Enforcement in the Ashcroft Era, Americans with Disabilities (ADA) and Racial Discrimination Litigation and Cases, Employment, Voting, Housing Rights, Hate Crimes, Reproductive Care Access | U.S. Government, Core Federal Information Series (CD ROM) | Progressive Management | 2003 | A comprehensive guide to the work of the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division; every aspect from racial discrimination to the Americans with Disabilities Act. | Civil rights, federal government, hate crimes, reproductive access
Designing Our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications | [NAME], [NAME] | Johns Hopkins University Press | 2003 | This book presents twenty essays by physicians, scientists, philosophers, theologians, lawyers, and policy analysts addressing issues of molecular biology and new reproductive technologies. | reproductive technologies, biotechnology, ethics, selection, eugenics
Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights | Rosalind Petchesky | [NAME] | 2003 | "At a time when the global corporate sector appears overpoweringly strong relative to governments, the UN and civil society, [NAME] provides an invaluable orientation and realistic multi-pronged agenda for challenging the current global acceptance of profit over people."--Barbara [NAME], Women's Health Project, South Africa | International human rights, health, gender
Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self | [NAME] | Rutgers University Press | 2003 | This book explores the lives of various intersex individuals.  The author also focuses on how intersex people have to cope with being seen as deviants in a society that demands strict sexual conformity. | Intersex, gender, identity
Making Women Pay: The Hidden Cost of Fetal Rights | [NAME] | Cornell University Press 2 | 2003 | [NAME]'s comprehensive research shows how legal policies and court decisions that grant fetal personhood will displace women as recipients of needed services such as health care and welfare, and as citizens deserving of equal rights under the Constitution. | Fetal rights
Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine, Ethics, and [NAME] (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) | [NAME], [NAME], and [NAME] | Oxford University Press, USA | 2003 | The authors are authorities on reproductive medicine, human rights, medical law, and bioethics.  They provide a comprehensive introduction to reproductive and sexual health. The book also analyzes fifteen case-studies of reoccuring problems and considers what kinds of social change would relieve the underlying problems of reproductive health. | Human rights, medicine, health care, bioethics, reproductive health, sexual health
Sacred Rights: The Case for Contraception and Abortion in World Religions | [NAME] | Oxford University Press | 2003 | As the global population continues to grow, family planning is fast becoming one of the most critical issues facing the planet. While many organizations--most prominently the United Nations--are trying to implement policies that will help curb the population explosion, these measures are frequently blocked by those professing conservative religious beliefs. In many of the world's religions there is a restrictive and pro-natalist view on family planning, and this is one legitimate reading of those religious traditions. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, however, this is not the only legitimate or orthodox view. Seeking to counteract the simplistic idea that all religions are completely antagonistic toward family planning, the authors--all scholar-practitioners of the religions about which they write--present alternative interpretations of religions' views about family planning. Arguing for the existence of equally valid traditions that allow contraception and abortion, they seek to escape the confines of oversimplified either/or, pro-choice/pro-life arguments. Instead, they point the way toward a more open discussion of family planning. Dispelling the notion that the world's religions are uniformly conservative on issues of family planning, the authors show that the parameters of orthodoxy are wider and gentler than that, and that the great religious traditions are wiser and more variegated than a simple repetition of the most conservative views would suggest. | Religion, international, reproductive rights
Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement | [NAME] | NYU Press | 2003 | [NAME] tells the story of the struggle for legal and safe abortion and reproductive rights from the 1960s up through the early 1980s through the contributions of women of color. | Women of Color, reproductive rights
Becoming a Visible Man | Jamison Green | Vanderbilt University Press | 2004 | Green weaves his own personal story of transition from a female to a male body into a wider narrative on gender, masculinity, and transgender activism.  He also provides information on transgender health concerns, including hormones and surgery. | LGBTQ, intersex, gender, transgender, activism
Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion | [NAME]. | iUniverse | 2004 | This book is a collection of women's personal testimonies about their abortion experiences.  The book conclues with an analysis of the current state of abortion politics. | Abortion
Reproductive Health: Women and Men's Shared Responsibility | [NAME] | ones & [NAME]; 1 edition | 2004 | This book speaks to both leaders and students in the field of public health; addressing reproductive health with a focus on the role of men, human rights, global health, infertility, environmental threats, gender violence, and more. | Public health, reproductive health, gender roles
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice | [NAME], [NAME], [NAME], and [NAME] | South End Press | 2004 | Women of color activists instrumental in the formation of the reproductive justice movement describe the challenges and triumphs of building their groundbreaking grassroots efforts. | Reproductive justice, Women of Color
War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back | [NAME] | Bantum | 2004 | Feldt quotes anti-choice politicians and reveals the widespread erosion of reproductive rights in the U.S. in order to "open the eyes and mouths" of pro-choice readers. | Abortion, reproductive rights, Choice, right-wing, politics
Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare in the United States | [NAME] | University of North Carolina Press | 2005 | This book looks at the reproductive politics of North Carolina in a wider context, both global and national. | Sterilization, birth control, public health, reproductive rights, abortion
Fool for Love | [NAME] | Lulu.com | 2005 | This novel chronicles a teenage love story between two individuals who deviate from gender norms, one of whom is intersex. | Intersex, gender
Globalization, Women, and Health in the 21st Century | [NAME], [NAME] A Hartwig, Justin List | Palgrave Macmillan | 2005 | This book brings together a diverse group of distinguished authors and activists to explore the new risks and freedoms for men and woman in a global society and their health determinants. | international, globalization, health
Learning to Dance: Advancing Womens Reproductive Health and Well-Being from the Perspectives of Public Health and Human Rights | [NAME]. | FXB Center for Health and Human Rights | 2005 | This book promotes understanding of how health and human rights work more effectively together, including addressing the human rights implications of reproductive health interventions and fostering rights-based policies and laws relating to sexuality and reproductive health. | Human rights, health, reproductive health, public health
Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America | [NAME] | NYU Press | 2005 | This succinct, highly readable political and cultural history of a wide range of reproductive issues is a near-perfect primer on the topic. Solinger writes from a broad, multi-issue, feminist perspective, placing the struggle for reproductive freedom at the center of a variety of political battles. | Pregnancy, politics
Standing Out, Standing Together: The Social and Political Impact of Gay-Straight Alliances | [NAME] | [NAME] | 2005 | Miceli follows the growth of gay-straight alliance groups in public schools, the controversy and opposition stirred against them, and the importance of student activism. | LGBTQIQ
Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice, and Change | [NAME] | GeorgetownUniversity Press | 2005 | As a theological ethicist and progressive Catholic, [NAME] does not want to cede the "religious perspective" to fundamentalists and the pro-life movement, nor does she want to submit to the gospel of a political liberalism that champions individual autonomy as holy writ. In Theological Bioethics, Cahill calls for progressive religious thinkers and believers to join in the effort to reclaim the best of their traditions through jointly engaging political forces at both community and national levels. In Cahill's eyes, just access to health care must be the number one priority for this type of "participatory bioethics." She describes a new understanding of theological bioethics that must go beyond decrying injustice, beyond opposing social practices that commercialize human beings, beyond painting a vision of a more egalitarian future. Such a participatory bioethics, she argues, must also take account of and take part in a global social network of mobilization for change; it must seek out those in solidarity, those involved in a common calling to create a more just social, political, and economic system. | Bioethics, Catholic, theology
What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision | [NAME] | NYU Press | 2005 | Eleven constitutional scholars, including [NAME], rewrite the opinions in this case making use only of sources available at the time of the original decision.  They take positions for and against the right to have an abortion.  [NAME] gives a comprehensive introduction to Roe v. Wade, including the history of the litigation, the constitutional and political battles that followed it, and where abortions rights are today in America. | Abortion, Constitutional law,
Where Human Rights Begin: Health, Sexuality, And Women in the New Millennium | [NAME], [NAME] | Rutgers University Press | 2005 | This collection of eight essays examines various policies implemented by the international community to recognize women's rights as human rights in an effort to protect women's health and sexual freedom. These essays discuss the impact of these policies using case studies and consider the future path governments must take in order to ensure that their goals become reality. | International, human rights, policy
With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose | [NAME] |  | 2005 | Michelman, leader of NARAL for two decades, asserts America's support for choice and relates stories of the deadly toll of anti-abortion laws in this political memoir. | Abortion
Abortion Under Attack: Women on the Challenges Facing Choice | [NAME], [NAME], [NAME] | Seal Press | 2006 | Pro-choice activists write about current issues facing the reproductive rights movement, including the newly conservative Supreme Court. This book addresses a spectrum of personal and social influences, ranging from dealing with remorse to the impact that economics, race, and culture have on a woman's right to choose. | Abortion
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl | [NAME] | [NAME] | 2006 | The story of [NAME] life and Dr. [NAME]’s failed experiment.  An account of the man whose life was the “John/Joan case”. | Intersex, gender, identity, healthcare
Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized | [NAME] | Pluto Press | 2006 | Butler exposes the growing power of the Religious Right throughout the world and the challenges this poses to the advancement of progressive social policies. | International
Education, Equality and Human Rights: Issues of Gender,'Race', Sexuality, Disability and Social Class | [NAME] | Routledge | 2006 | This book addresses the issue of human rights and its relationship to education in the last century. The issues of gender, race, sexuality, disability, and social class are covered individually and in context with education. | human rights, education, gender, race, sexuality, disability, economics, poverty, disability
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex | [NAME] | Basic Books | 2006 | This book points out how pro-life policies actually increase the number of abortions, and how this reveals the true agenda of the movement: restricting sexual freedom.  It also discusses how contraceptives and sex for pleasure raises the quality of life for both women and men. | abortion, pro-life movement
Reproductive Rights (Issues on Trial) | [NAME]. | Greenhaven Press | 2006 | This book is designed for grades 9 and up.  It examines various issues related to the topic through a compilation of writings about famous Supreme Court cases.  The essays include court decisions and dissenting opinions as well as contemporary journalism pieces and retrospective commentary. | Reproductive rights
Reproductive Rights in a Global Context: South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Denmark, the United States, Vietnam, Jordan | [NAME] | Vanderbilt University Press | 2006 | The book discusses the experiences of women within the global context.  It shows the reader how population control policies have affected women's reproductive rights in the past, and how the changing international debate on reproductive health will continue to influence those rights. | International, reproductive rights, reproductive health, population control,
Sacred Work: Planned Parenthood and Its Clergy Alliances | [NAME] | Rutgers University Press | 2006 | In the struggle for reproductive freedom, there are religious extremists at one end and liberal secularists at the other. Lost in this battle and often invisible to the public eye are the religious leaders and institutions that have worked in favor of protecting reproductive rights. In [NAME], [NAME] brings to light the ways in which the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a leading reproductive rights organization, and the clergy are not as incongruent as they often are construed to be. Although clergy supporters of choice are rarely, if ever, given attention in the media, [NAME] shows that they in fact play a major role in advancing women’s rights, rebutting right wing arguments, and helping to make (and keep) abortion legal nationwide. | Religion, reproductive rights, abortion
Safe, Legal and Unavailable?  Abortion Politics in the United States | Melody Rose | CQ Press | 2006 | Rose focuses on the erosion of abortion access and the advancement of "fetal rights" laws in the U.S. in the wake of Roe v. Wade. | Abortion
The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction | [NAME] | State Univsersity of New York Press | 2006 | This book brings together a philosophical analysis of time, embodiment, and ethical responsibility with a feminist critique of the way women’s reproductive capacity has been theorized and represented in Western culture. Author [NAME] develops the ethical and temporal implications of understanding birth as the gift of the Other, a gift which makes existence possible, and already orients this existence toward a radical responsibility for Others. Through an engagement with the work of Levinas, Beauvoir, Arendt, [NAME], and Kristeva, the author outlines an ethics of maternity based on the givenness of existence and a feminist politics of motherhood which critiques the exploitation of maternal generosity. | Philosophy, ehtics, birthing, pregnancy, gender, maternity, motherhood, feminism
Trading Women's Health and Rights?: Trade Liberalization and Reproductive Health in Developing Economies | [NAME], [NAME], and [NAME], eds. | [NAME] | 2006 | Economic law and trade policies shape public health, including reproductive health.  This book combines research from various areas on how the strength of international trade can affect reproductive rights and general public health. | International, reproductive health, economics, trade
When [NAME] to School: Warring Views on Sex--and Sex Education--Since the Sixties | [NAME] | W.W. Norton | 2006 | [NAME] explores sex education in the US--a conflict with stakes that are deceptively simple and painfully personal. For these parents, the question of how their children should be taught about sex cuts far deeper than politics, religion, or even friendship. | Minors, sex education, politics
Who Decides?: The Abortion Rights of Teens | [NAME] | Praeger | 2006 | Using case studies, [NAME] explores the legal, social, and emotional dimensions of underage girls who are pregnant but who are not ready to give birth to or raise a child. | Minors, abortion, sex education, policy
Women's Reproductive Rights (Women's Rights in Europe) | [NAME], Itziar [NAME], and Aitziber Emaldi Cirion, eds. | Palgrave Macmillan | 2006 | Based on reports from various countries and practical input from researchers and activists in the reproductive rights field, this book is a current account of the issues surrounding reproductive rights in Europe. The contributions provide a theoretical analysis of the existing problems and suggest possible alternatives. | International, reproducive rights, women
Abortion in the United States: A Reference Handbook | [NAME] | ABC-CLIO | 2007 | A collection of biographical sketches, bibliographies, and chronology and statistics. | Abortion
[NAME], the UN, and NGOs: Gender Violence and Reproductive Rights (Advancing Human Rights) | [NAME] | GeorgetownUniversity Press | 2007 | Joachim's deft examination of the documents, proceedings, and actions of the UN and women's advocacy NGOs reveals flaws in state-centered international relations theories as applied to UN policy, details the tactics and methods that NGOs can employ in order to push rights issues onto the UN agenda, and offers insights into the factors that affect NGO influence. | International human rights
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion | [NAME] and Nina de Gramont ed. | McAdam/Cage | 2007 | Rather than entering the political debate on abortion, this book offers women's stories about exercising their reproductive choices, whatever those choices might be. | Reproduction, contraception, abortion, fertility, infertility, adoption, single parenthood
Gender and Rights in Reproductive and Maternal Health: Manual for a Learning Workshop | WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific | World Health Organization | 2007 | This workshop manual is designed for policy-makers and others responsible for reproductive health. | Abortion
Protecting the Right to Choose | [NAME] | Plume | 2007 | From the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America comes a political, thought-provoking, and timely narrative about a woman’s constitutional right to control her own body. | Abortion, Choice
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade | [NAME] | Penguin | 2007 | An exploration of women who surrendered children to adoption before abortion was made legal in the US. | Abortion, adoption, gender
This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor | [NAME] | PublicAffairs | 2007 | Wicklund recounts her personal experiences from two decades as a doctor providing abortion care, including death threats, clinic violence, and intimidation. | Abortion, provider
Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America | [NAME] | Ig Publishing | 2008 | A collection that offers a progressive, leftist, counter-voice to the Religious Right's dominance over the religious conversation in America. | Religion, progressive, left
From Outrage to Courage: Women Taking Action for Health and Justice | [NAME] | Common Courage Press | 2008 | [NAME] examines the impact of poverty and gender inequality on women's health across the world and how those inequities derive from political realities rather than medical ones. | International
Nation, Immigration, and Environmental Security | [NAME] | Palgrave Macmillan | 2008 | Urban interrogates "the greening of hate" from an intersectional postcolonial feminist perspective that exposes the lethal, neo-Malthusian politics of ‘Environmental Security’ frameworks in academic, media, policy, and mainstream environmentalist discourse and foregrounds the political analysis and transformative social vision of the growing, immigrant-led movement for human rights and environmental and economic justice in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Urban's work offers a crucial and timely intervention in contemporary scholarly, activist, and policy debates over border security, global social justice and environmental sustainability. | Immigration, environment, national security, population, social justice
Sexuality, Health, and Human Rights | [NAME], [NAME], [NAME] | Routledge | 2008 | This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are changing quickly, as are traditional family structures and gender norms. What were once viewed as private matters have become public, and an array of new social movements – transgender, intersex, sex worker, people living with HIV – have come into the open. The book is split into three sections: Global ‘Sex’ Wars – discusses the notion of sexualities, its political landscapes internationally, and the return of religious fervour and extremism Epistemological Challenges and [NAME] – examines modern ‘scientific’ understandings of sexuality, its history and the way in which AIDS has drawn attention to sexuality The Promises and Limits of Sexual Rights – discusses human rights approaches to sexuality, their strengths and limitations and new ways of imagining erotic justice | Reproductive health, human rights, sex, gender, social justice, sexuality, HIV/AIDS
The Politics of Virginity: Abstinence in Sex Education (Reproductive Rights and Policy) | [NAME] and [NAME] | Praeger | 2008 | Examiniation of two decades of abstinence-only sex education in the US, and its greater policy and political implications. | Sex education, abstinence, policy, right-wing
The Reproductive Rights Reader; Law, Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood | [NAME] | NYU Press | 2008 | The contributors to The Reproductive Rights Reader embrace reproductive justice for all women, but challenge mainstream legal and political solutions based on protecting free choice via neutral governmental policies, which frequently ignore or jeopardize the interests of women of color and the poor. Instead, the pieces in this interdisciplinary book — including both legal cases and articles by legal scholars, historians, sociologists, political scientists and others — favor a critical analysis that addresses the concrete material conditions that limit choices, the role of law and social policy in creating those conditions, and the gendered power dynamics that inform and are reinforced by the regulation of human reproduction. The selections demonstrate that the right to choice isn't an automatic guarantee of reproductive justice and gender equality; to truly achieve this ideal it is essential to recognize the complexity of women's reproductive experiences and needs. Divided into four sections, the book examines feminist critiques of medical knowledge and practice; and the legal regulation of pregnancy termination, conception and child-bearing, and behavior during pregnancy. | Reproductive rights, abortion, contraception, law, medicine
A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice, and the Environmental Challenge | [NAME], [NAME]. | Island Press | 2009 | This book puts forth the concept of "population justice," which is inspired by reproductive justice and environmental justic movements.  Population justice holds that inequality is a root cause of both rapid population growth and environmental degradation. | population, reproductive justice, environmental justice, inequality
Body Politics in Development: Critical Debates in Gender and Development | [NAME] | [NAME] | 2009 | This book explains how activists around the world have organized to fight for their economic and social rights and well-being, to end violence against women and militarism, to promote sexual and reproductive rights, and to protect bodily integrity in the face of new biotechnologies. | Reproductive justice, social justice, economic justice, international, biotechnologies
Creating a New Consensus on Population | [NAME] | Earthscan Publications Ltd.; Second Edition edition | 2009 | This fully updated edition of Creating a New Consensus on Population charts international progress on efforts to address population and development, reproductive health, reproductive rights, religion, contraception and the empowerment of women. Historical coverage includes the lead up process to the ICPD, the conference itself and the global consensus and the ICPD Programme of Action that resulted. The book then turns to how population issues have developed over the past decade and a half including follow-up and implementation at the international level by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other UN agencies and organizations. Key international events are covered including the 1999 ICPD+5, Millennium Summit 2000, ICPD+10 and the 2005 MDG+5 as well as relevant regional events. The book also examines the reorientation of policies and programs and implementation at national levels across the world. Crucially, it looks at emerging issues and partnerships including the increasing role of NGOs, women's groups, youth groups, foundations, public-private partnerships and other non-state stakeholders. | International, reproductive health, population, development, gender, sex education
Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980 (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine) | [NAME] | Rutgers University Press | 2009 | Fit to Be Tied provides a history of sterilization and what would become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth control. Utilizing first-person narratives, court cases, and official records, [NAME] examines the evolution of forced sterilization of poor women, especially women of color, in the second half of the century and contrasts it with demands for contraceptive sterilization made by white women and men. She chronicles public acceptance during an era of reproductive and sexual freedom, the shift away from sterilization and how it influenced many aspects of American life. | Sterilization, birth control, public health, reproductive rights, abortion
Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward | [NAME] and [NAME], eds. | University of Pennsylvania Press | 2009 | Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward critically reflects on the past fifteen years of international efforts aimed at improving health, alleviating poverty, diminishing gender inequality, and promoting human rights. The volume includes essays by leading scholars and practitioners that are centered on the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and its resulting Programme of Action. ICPD represented an agreement among 179 governments, UN agencies, and NGOs and was intended to shape population and development policy—reinterpreted and redefined as "reproductive health." More than a decade after the enthusiasm that accompanied ICPD, there is growing concern about its effectiveness in the context of global health and development. Reproductive Health and Human Rights addresses that concern. The book grapples with fundamental questions about the relationships among population, fertility decline, reproductive health, human rights, poverty alleviation, and development and assesses the various arguments—demographic, public health, human rights-based, and economic—for and against ICPD today. | International, reproductive health, human rights, population
The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power, and the Future of the World | [NAME] | Penguin Press HC | 2009 | [NAME] how the extreme ideological polarization over abortion in the US is playing out all over the world. Delves into the history of US foreign policy as it relates to population control and family planning policies. | international, abortion, politics, population growth
Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling | [NAME] and Reva Siegal | Kaplan Publishing | 2010 | Using primary documents, the book expores the different voices and perspectives that shaped the legal, political, and social landscape during the 1960s and 1970s before the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. | Abortion
Markets and [NAME]: Population, [NAME], and Health in Neo-liberal Times | [NAME], [NAME] | Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd; 1 edition | 2010 | From the politics of abortion and immigration to rising levels of fundamentalist violence and sex selective abortions, the volume explores a range of issues from several vantage points. | Population, reproduction, immigration, abortion, sex selection, fundamentalism
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America (Alternative Criminology Series) | [NAME] | NYU Press | 2010 | Flavin explores the intense policing of women's reproductive capacity that places women's health and human rights in great peril. Poor women are pressured to undergo sterilization. Women addicted to illicit drugs risk arrest for carrying their pregnancies to term. Courts, child welfare, and law enforcement agencies fail to recognize the efforts of battered and incarcerated women to care for their children. Pregnant inmates are subject to inhumane practices such as shackling during labor and poor prenatal care. And decades after Roe, the criminalization of certain procedures and regulation of abortion providers still obstruct women’s access to safe and private abortions. | Women of Color, race, gender, poverty, reproductive oppression, sterilization, prosecution of pregnant women
Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics | [NAME], [NAME], and [NAME] | MIT Press | 2010 | Bioethics has become increasingly politicized over the past decade. Conservative voices dominated the debate at first, but the recent resurgence of progressivism and the application of its fundamental values (social justice, critical optimism, practical problem solving) to bioethical issues have helped correct this ideological imbalance. Progress in Bioethics is the first book to debate the meaning of progressive bioethics and to offer perspectives on the topic both from bioethicists who consider themselves progressive and from bioethicists who do not. It aims to begin a dialogue and to provide a foothold for readers interested in understanding the field. | Bioethics, progressive, fundamentalism, social justice
Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement | Christa Craven | Temple University Press | 2010 | Craven presents a nuanced history of women's reproductive rights activism in the U.S. She also provides an examination of contemporary organizing strategies for reproductive rights in an era increasingly driven by "consumer rights." By framing the midwifery struggle through a political economic perspective on reproductive rights, Pushing for Midwives offers an in-depth look at the strategies, successes, and challenges facing midwifery activists in Virginia. Craven examines how decades-old race and class prejudices against midwives continue to impact opposition too, as well as divisions within, women's contemporary legislative efforts for midwives. She argues that this recognition is vital for both scholars and activists if they hope to maintain their commitment to expanding reproductive rights for all women. | Midwifery
Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire | [NAME], [NAME] | Indiana University Press | 2010 | Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, [NAME] and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present a focused engagement with the critical, philosophical, and political dimensions of sex and nature. These discussions are particularly relevant to current debates in many disciplines, including environmental studies, queer theory, critical race theory, philosophy, literary criticism, and politics. As a whole, Queer Ecologies stands as a powerful corrective to views that equate "natural" with "straight" while "queer" is held to be against nature. | environmental studies
Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture | [NAME] and June Carbone | Oxford University Press, USA | 2010 | Two law professors evaluate how the distinction of family values varies in conservative and liberal families, including how both sides view sex, marriage and divorce. The results indicate that families in blue areas tend to defer marriage and childbearing, are more likely to complete higher levels of education, and have fewer teenage pregnancies.  Red families are more likely to embrace the unity of sex, marriage and reproduction based on traditional values and control of sexuality. | Family values, ideologies
Reproductive Justice (based on Wikipedia articles) | [NAME], Miriam T Timpledon, [NAME] | [NAME] | 2010 | Reproductive justice is a concept linking reproductive health with social justice. The term emerged from the work of reproductive health organizations for women of color in the United States in the 1990s. Proponents of the concept of reproductive justice aim to recognize that women's reproductive health is connected to and affected by conditions in their lives that are shaped by their socioeconomic status, human rights violations, race, sexuality, and nationality. Proponents argue that women cannot have full control over their reproductive lives, unless issues such as socioeconomic disadvantage, racial discrimination, inequalities in wealth and power, and differential access to resources and services are addressed | Reproductive justice
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | [NAME] | Crown | 2010 | Tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951, and from whom the HeLa cell line originated. Explores issues of race, class, healthcare access, and informed consent, or the lack thereof. | reproductive oppression, informed consent, ethics
Women in Biotechnology: Creating Interfaces | Francesca Molfino, Flavia Zucco | Springer | 2010 | Women in Biotechnology presents a unique study of the relationships and communications between women scientists, particularly those working in biotechnology. This is achieved by creating interfaces or collecting different point of views over several disciplines (i.e. economics,  sociology, biology, genetics) to bridge the communication gap among science, the humanities and different feminist groups. The publication of this book is the first step in building a new scientific community that shares a common interest in improving the awareness of women scientists who are not an integral part of the decision-making processes in their respective fields. In this respect, Women in Biotechnology endeavours to address the ethical and bio-political implications in different branches of contemporary research, and to promote the need of women holding decision-making power to consolidate the scientific and social responsibility of all scientists. | Biotechnology, women, science, feminism
[NAME] | [NAME], [NAME] | Cambridge Univeristy Press | 2011 | This volume presents a collection of original works that examines persisting gender inequality through the lens of citizenship. | Equality, gender, women, citizenship