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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Named one of the "40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years" by Columbia Journalism Review , Peggy Orenstein is one of the most prominent, unflinching feminist voices of our time. Her writing has broken ground and broken silences on topics as wide-ranging as miscarriage, motherhood, breast cancer, princess culture and the importance of girls' sexual pleasure. Her unique blend of investigative reporting, personal revelation and unexpected...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2007
Language
English
Description
While independence from communist rule brought certain freedoms to Central and Eastern Europe, newly-liberated republics actually began reversing their citizens' reproductive rights. A 1956 Polish resolution that had legalized abortion was overturned in 1989; contraceptives and sex education were also banned. Similar restrictions sprang up in Lithuania, Slovakia, Moldova, Georgia, and the Ukraine-even women with dangerous pregnancies were now forced...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers an urgent book about two key reproductive rights victories in New York that set the tone for the nation. A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the campaign against sterilization abuse, which happened disproportionately in communities...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking and illuminating look at the state of abortion access in America and the first long-term study of the consequences--emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological--of receiving versus being denied an abortion on women's lives"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Survivor Injustice shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a "private matter" perpetrated by individual bad actors and situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sabia C. Wade, renowned radical doula and educator, speaks to the intersections of systemic issues--such as access to health care, house transportation, and nutrition--and personal trauma work that, if healed, have the power to lead us to collective liberation in all facets of life. Collective liberation rests on the idea that in order for us all to have equity in this world--from the safety of childbirth, to the ability to bring a baby home to a...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the states and communities hardest hit by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, telling the stories of those most at risk, but also profiles the people who are doing groundbreaking, inspiring work to ensure safe, legal access to a fundamental part of health care.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A stressed family, an unplanned pregnancy, and a painful, if liberating, awakening from the author of the lauded memoir Her. Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman's love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the decade after the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion, advocates on both sides sought common ground. But as pro-abortion and anti-abortion positions hardened over time into pro-choice and pro-life, the myth was born that Roe v. Wade was a ruling on a woman's right to choose. Mary Ziegler's account offers a corrective."--
10) Take my hand
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
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