Reproductive Justice

Books

  • Adler, N., Jones, M., Kindig, J., Navarro, E., & Rumberger, A. (Eds.). (2022). We organize to change everything: Fighting for abortion access and reproductive justice. Verso Books.
  • Barcelos, C. A. (2020). Distributing condoms and hope: The racialized politics of youth sexual health. University of California Press.
  • Briggs, L. (2017). How all politics became reproductive politics: From welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump. University of California Press.
  • Ehrenreich, N. (Ed.). (2008). The reproductive rights reader: Law, medicine, and the construction of motherhood. NYU Press.
  • Hinojosa Hernández, L., & De Los Santos Upton, S. (2018). Challenging reproductive control and gendered violence in the Américas: Intersectionality, power, and struggles for rights. Lexington Books.
  • Kirby, J. (2017). Fired up about reproductive rights. AK Press.
  • Littlejohn, K. E. (Ed.). (2024). Fighting mad: Resisting the end of Roe v. Wade. University of California Press.
  • Luna, Z. (2020). Reproductive rights as human rights: Women of color and the fight for reproductive justice. NYU Press.
  • Mutcherson, K. M. (Ed.). (2020). Feminist judgments: Reproductive justice rewritten. Cambridge University Press.
  • Oaks, L. (2015). Giving up baby: Safe haven laws, motherhood, and reproductive justice. New York University Press.
  • Riley, N. E., & Chatterjee, N. (2023). Controlling reproduction: Women, society, and state power. Polity Press.
  • Ross, L., & Solinger, R. (2017). Reproductive justice: An introduction. University of California Press.
  • Thomson, J. (2019). Abortion law and political institutions: Explaining policy resistance. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Zavella, P. (2020). The movement for reproductive justice: Empowering women of color through social activism. NYU Press.

Chapters

  • Matthiesen, S. (2021). The labor of ‘choice’: Navigating the abortion debate and lifelines of last resort. In Reproduction reconceived (pp. 157-186). University of California Press.
  • Nelson, J. (2020). Sterilization, birth control, and abortion: Reproductive politics from 1945 to the present. In N. A. Hewitt & A. M. Valk (Eds.), A companion to American women’s history (pp. 299-317). John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
  • Novotny, M., & De Hertogh, L. B. (2019). Rhetorics of self-disclosure: A feminist framework for infertility activism. In J. White-Farnham, B. S. Finer, & C. Molloy (Eds.), Women’s health advocacy [eBook edition]. Routledge.
  • Saunders, K. (2022). Doing the work of the state? Class inequalities and motherhood in neoliberal times. In T. Morison & J. M. J. Mavuso (Eds.), Sexual and reproductive justice: From the margins to the centre (pp. 157-174). Lexington Books.

Papers and Articles

Popular Press

Historical Perspectives

  • Books
    • Cline, D. P. (2006). Creating choice: A community responds to the need for abortion and birth control, 1961-1973. Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Hume, A. (2023). Deep care: The radical activists who provided abortions, defied the law, and fought to keep clinics open. AK Press.
    • Kaplan, L. (1997). The story of Jane: The legendary underground feminist abortion service. University of Chicago Press.
  • Other

Please also see Bibliography 100: Reproductive Justice in the United States