Research Guides: Reproductive Justice: Abortion

Ejaculate Responsibly by Gabrielle Stanley Blair
ISBN: 1523523263
Publication Date: 2022-10-18
In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative re-framing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America. In a series of 28 brief arguments, she deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women's bodies and instead directs the focus on men's lack of accountability in preventing unwanted pregnancies.
Choice Words by Annie Finch (Editor); Audre Lorde (Contribution by); Dorothy Parker (Contribution by); Joyce Carol Oates (Contribution by); Lucille Clifton (Contribution by); Gloria Steinem (Contribution by); Úrsula K. Le Guin (Contribution by); Lindy West (Contribution by); Camonghne Felix (Contribution by)
ISBN: 1642591483
Publication Date: 2020-04-07
A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights.
The Turnaway Study by Diana Greene Foster
ISBN: 9781982141585
Publication Date: 2020-06-02
The Turnaway Study offers the first thorough, data-driven examination of the negative consequences for women who cannot get abortions and provides incontrovertible evidence to refute the claim that abortion harms women.
You're the Only One I've Told by Meera Shah
ISBN: 9781641603669
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
This book collects those stories as they've been told to Shah to humanize abortion and to combat myths that persist in the discourse that surrounds it. An intentionally wide range of ages, races, socioeconomic factors and experiences, shows that abortion does not happen in a vacuum--it always occurs in a unique context. Today, abortion has become a core political litmus test for party loyalty. Stories have power to break down stigmas and help us to empathize with those whose experiences are unlike our own.

Selected Studies

The following list is provided paywall free from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society until November 2022 after you will need to be a Purdue affiliate (student, faculty, staff)

Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack. (1980). “Reproductive Freedom: Beyond ‘A Woman’s Right to Choose’.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 5(4), 661-685.

Hayler, Barbara. (1979). “Abortion.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 5(2): 307-323.

Tangri, Sandra Schwartz. (1976). “A Feminist Perspective on Some Ethical Issues in Population Programs.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1(4), 895-904.

Thomsen, Carly, & Morrison, Grace T. (2020). “Abortion as Gender Transgression: Reproductive Justice, Queer Theory, and Anti–Crisis Pregnancy Center Activism.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 45(3), 703-730.

Williamson, Nancy E. (1976). “Sex Preferences, Sex Control, and the Status of Women.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1(4), 847-862.

Denbow, Jennifer M. (2016). “Abortion as Genocide: Race, Agency, and Nation in Prenatal Nondiscrimination Bans.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 41(3), 603-626.

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