Research Guides: Reproductive Justice: Birth Control

Zines

Downloadable Reproductive Justice Zines - a selection of FREE reproduction justice zines available in print in the Barnard College zine library and provide links to them online via CLIO.

Abortion-Positive Coloring Book for Hard Times
Abortion-Positive Coloring Book for Hard Times by the Lilith Fund. Zines L5558a 2020.
The Lilith Fund provides food-related, superhero, and other illustrations to color in with pro-abortion messages.

Just Get on the Pill by Krystale E. Littlejohn
ISBN: 0520973763
Publication Date: 2021-08-31
Understanding the social history and urgent social implications of gendered compulsory birth control, an unbalanced and unjust approach to pregnancy prevention.
Birth Control Battles by Melissa J. Wilde
ISBN: 9780520303218
Publication Date: 2019-12-17
Conservative and progressive religious groups fiercely disagree about issues of sex and gender. But how did we get here? Using a veritable treasure trove of data, including census and archival materials and more than 10,000 articles, statements, and sermons from religious and secular periodicals, Wilde demonstrates that the push to liberalize positions on contraception was tied to complex views of race, immigration, and manifest destiny among America's most prominent religious groups.
The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan Eig
ISBN: 9780393073720
Publication Date: 2014-10-13
The fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. We know it simply as "the pill," yet its genesis was anything but simple. This is a grand story of radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes.

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)

Meyers, Diana Tietjens. (2001). “The Rush to Motherhood: Pronatalist Discourse and Women’s Autonomy.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 26(3), 735-773.

Kelly, Kimberly. (2012). “In the Name of the Mother: Renegotiating Conservative Women’s Authority in the Crisis Pregnancy Center Movement.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 38(1), 203-230.

Daniel, Clare. (2014). “‘Taming the Media Monster’: Teen Pregnancy and the Neoliberal Safety (Inter) Net.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 39(4), 973-998.

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