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The History and Politics of Reproduction, Before and After Roe

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US History

Abortion

Books

• Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867–1973 (University of California Press, new ed. 2022)

• Joshua Prager, The Family Roe: An American Story (W. W. Norton & Co., 2021)
• Rickie Solinger, Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (NYU Press, 2005; 2019) 
• Rickie Solinger, ed. Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950–2000 (University of California Press, 1998)
• Lauren G. Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Duke Univerity Press, 1997)
• Johanna Schoen, Abortion after Roe (University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
• Diana Greene Foster, The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, A Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having–or Being Denied–An Abortion (Scribner, 2021)
• David A. Grimes, with Linda G. Brandon, Every Third Woman in America: How Legal Abortion Transformed Our Nation (Daymark Publishing, 2014)
• Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell University Press, 1994)
• Sara Matthiesen, Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe v. Wade (Berkley: University of California Press, 2021)