Ethical Issues: Abortion & Birth Control

Josephine McCarty had many identities. But in Albany, New York, she was known as Dr. Emma Burleigh, the abortionist of Howard Street. On January 17...

With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the remarkable beginning and end--o...

Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring. In f...

This book looks at the recent history of sex, contraception, and abortion in Australias most conservative state, Queensland. In western nations, th...

This book analyses the world of selective reproduction by a critical analysis of three modes of controlling birth, namely contraception, reproducti...

As the predominant form of birth control in Soviet society, abortion reflected key paradoxes of state socialism: women held formal equality but lac...

As the predominant form of birth control in Soviet society, abortion reflected key paradoxes of state socialism: women held formal equality but lac...

Undivided Rights, with a new introduction, presents a fresh and textured understanding of the reproductive rights movement by placing the experienc...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'This book is absolutely brilliant and my favourite book of the year so far! I couldn't put it down!' 'One o...

This book systematically traces the development, significance, and implications of female reproductive choice. Paramount is the right to safe termi...

Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryo...

Decades before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, pregnant people faced arrest and prosecution for supposed crimes against the fertilized eggs, embryo...

Reproductive Rights and Wrongs reveals the dangers of contemporary population-control tactics, especially for women in developing countries. It als...

In this brave and devastatingly beautiful anthology, the illustrious poet and editor Aracelis Girmay gathers complex and intimate pieces that illum...

The Billboard is about a fictional Black womens clinic in Chicagos Englewood neighborhood on the South Side and its fight with a local gadfly runni...

The Billboard is about a fictional Black womens clinic in Chicagos Englewood neighborhood on the South Side and its fight with a local gadfly runni...

The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has generated a critical urgency for this landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays....

Abortion Under Apartheid examines the politics of abortion in South Africa during the apartheid era (1948-1990), when termination of pregnancy was ...

LIFE IS WINNING IN AMERICA! THE END OF ABORTION IS WITHIN REACH!America is standing for life again. There has never been a more urgent moment for e...

The biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth centuryand a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on rep...

Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and deat...

Caroline Bancroft History Prize 2021, Denver Public Library Armitage-Jameson Prize 2021, Coalition of Western Women's History David J. Weber Prize ...

A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the anti-abortion movement remade the Republican Party  A tim...

Authors Marvin Olasky and Leah Savas detail the long history of abortion and its impact on American culture through vivid personal stories that hum...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Despite her famous pseudonym, Jane Roe, no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (19472017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fra...

This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external f...

'There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies's achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of father...

First full-length study of attitudes to abortion in the early medieval west. When a Spanish monk struggled to find the right words to convey his u...

One in three women in Britain have an abortion. For such a common procedure, it has not been the subject of a dedicated book of poetry - not, at le...

This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar...

*Winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize 2022* In Ireland, 2018, a constitutional ban that equated the life of a woman to the life of a fertili...

A compendium of creative strategies for building the world we want, this book . . . models the myriad ways that people can make a difference in the...

Explores the historical development and severe ramifications of America's strict abortion regulations.Nearly one in four women in the United States...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'This book is absolutely brilliant and my favourite book of the year so far! I couldn't put it down!' 'One o...