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Gender Studies
Reproductive Rights


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Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room
Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room
by Merle Hoffman
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Merle Hoffman's life story is riveting. A former classical pianist, a self-made millionaire, and a feminist who found her life's work providing abortions, she has been a fearless crusader for women's right to choose. Over the years, Hoffman has used her... (read more)

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No Neutral Ground PB (Dilemmas in American Politics)
No Neutral Ground PB (Dilemmas in American Politics)
by Karen Oconnor
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In a single year, Dr. David Gunn was killed, Jane Roe recanted, the Supreme Court began to backpedal from its landmark 1973 decision, Congress became fixated on a rare late-term abortion procedure, and numerous states imposed legislation limiting a... (read more)

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Protecting the Right to Choose
Protecting the Right to Choose
by Kate Michelman
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From the former president of NARAL Pro-Choice America comes a politically impassioned, thought-provoking, and timely narrative about a woman’s constitutional right to shape her own life. Catalyzed by a pre–Roe v. Wade abortion, which required the... (read more)

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Protecting the Right to Choose
Protecting the Right to Choose
by Kate Michelman
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A cautionary reminder of the dangers posed to women by pre-Roe v. Wade politics reveals how specific appointments to the Supreme Court would limit a woman's right to choose as well as her reproductive options, discussing the issue's significance in the... (read more)

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The Fetal Position: A Rational Approach to the Abortion Issue
The Fetal Position: A Rational Approach to the Abortion Issue
by Chris Meyers
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Taking neither a pro-life nor a pro-choice stance, rather, using philosophical methodology, Meyers carefully scrutinizes the commonly voiced arguments for and against abortion with the aim of assessing them from a position that is as unbiased as possible.... (read more)

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Safe, Legal, and Unavailable?: Abortion Politics in the United States
Safe, Legal, and Unavailable?: Abortion Politics in the United States
by Melody Rose
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Finding that her students readily defend various positions on the abortion controversy, but rarely know what the actual status of abortion policy is, Rose (political science, Portland State U., Oregon) sets out the current policy--arguing that... (read more)

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Life on the Line
Life on the Line
by Faye Wattleton
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As a nurse in 1967, she witnessed firsthand the shame and suffering of women in the age of illegal abortion. As leader of the nation's most influential reproductive-rights organization from 1978 to 1992, she would face fierce opposition -- and be divided... (read more)

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The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
The War on Choice: The Right-Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
by Gloria Feldt
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Accessible and impassioned, here is an eye-opening look at the right wing strategy to reverse the gains American women have made over the past 50 years. The War on Choice chronicles the actions being taken at the highest levels of government to turn back... (read more)

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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
by Ann Fessler
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A powerful and groundbreaking revelation of the secret history of the 1.5 million women who surrendered children for adoption in the several decades before Roe v. Wade. In this deeply moving work, Ann Fessler brings to light the lives of hundreds of... (read more)

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The Wichita Divide: The Murder of Dr. George Tiller and the Battle Over Abortion
The Wichita Divide: The Murder of Dr. George Tiller and the Battle Over Abortion
by Stephen Singular
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The New York Times bestselling author offers an in-depth account of the life and death of a controversial doctor, the debate that sparked his assassination, and the place where two Americas collide On May 31, 2009, Scott Roeder walked into a Wichita... (read more)

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The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States
The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States
by Gene Burns
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Examines the often surprising history of controversies over contraception and abortion in the United States.... (read more)

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Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation, and Direct Action
Pro-Life Activists in America: Meaning, Motivation, and Direct Action
by Carol J C Maxwell
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This book offers a oral history of pro-life direct activism in America from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. Through the stories of leaders and followers, men and women, Catholics and evangelicals, Carol Maxwell explores the complex beliefs and... (read more)

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Reading Birth and Death: A History of Obstetric Thinking
Reading Birth and Death: A History of Obstetric Thinking
by Jo Murphy Lawless
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-332) and index.... (read more)

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Not an easy choice :a feminist re-examines abortion
Not an easy choice :a feminist re-examines abortion
by Kathleen Mcdonnell
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Baby in the Bottle an Investigative Re
Baby in the Bottle an Investigative Re
by William Nolen
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The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States
The Moral Veto: Framing Contraception, Abortion, and Cultural Pluralism in the United States
by Gene Burns
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