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. https://store.lux-magazine.com/lux/store/prdetail?gr=LUX-ABORTION
• Barcelos, C. A. (2020). Distributing condoms and hope: The racialized politics of youth sexual health. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306714/distributing-condoms-and-hope
• Briggs, L. (2017). How all politics became reproductive politics: From welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520299948/how-all-politics-became-reproductive-politics
• Ehrenreich, N. (Ed.). (2008). The reproductive rights reader: Law, medicine, and the construction of motherhood. NYU Press. https://nyupress.org/9780814722312/the-reproductive-rights-reader/
• 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. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498542593/Challenging-Reproductive-Control-and-Gendered-Violence-in-the-Am%C3%A9ricas-Intersectionality-Power-and-Struggles-for-Rights
• Kirby, J. (2017). Fired up about reproductive rights. AK Press. https://www.akpress.org/firedupaboutreproductiverights.html
• Littlejohn, K. E. (Ed.). (2024). Fighting mad: Resisting the end of Roe v. Wade. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396777/fighting-mad
• Luna, Z. (2020). Reproductive rights as human rights: Women of color and the fight for reproductive justice. NYU Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479831296/reproductive-rights-as-human-rights/
• Mutcherson, K. M. (Ed.). (2020). Feminist judgments: Reproductive justice rewritten. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/feminist-judgments-reproductive-justice-rewritten/417279378D6F461F3F455FC56CCA9908
• Oaks, L. (2015). Giving up baby: Safe haven laws, motherhood, and reproductive justice. New York University Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479806362/giving-up-baby/
• Riley, N. E., & Chatterjee, N. (2023). Controlling reproduction: Women, society, and state power. Polity Press. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Controlling+Reproduction:+Women,+Society,+and+State+Power-p-9781509539918
• Ross, L., & Solinger, R. (2017). Reproductive justice: An introduction. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520288201/reproductive-justice
• Thomson, J. (2019). Abortion law and political institutions: Explaining policy resistance. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-96169-9
• Zavella, P. (2020). The movement for reproductive justice: Empowering women of color through social activism. NYU Press. https://nyupress.org/9781479812707/the-movement-for-reproductive-justice/

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. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520298217/reproduction-reconceived
• 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. https://www.wiley.com/en-ca/A+Companion+to+American+Women%27s+History%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9781119522652
• 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. https://www.routledge.com/Womens-Health-Advocacy-Rhetorical-Ingenuity-for-the-21st-Century/White-Farnham-Siegel-Finer-Molloy/p/book/9780367192259
• 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. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793644220/Sexual-and-Reproductive-Justice-From-the-Margins-to-the-Centre

Papers and Articles

• Ahmed, A. (2023). Feminist legal theory and praxis after Dobbs: Science, politics, and expertise. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 34(2), 48-54. https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/18247
• Daniel, C. (2022). Compromising justice: Reproductive rights advocacy in the time of Trump. Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, 43(1), 68-92. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/article/846733
• Ellis, C. D. (2023). Embracing Jane’s uncivil tongue: Pro-choice failures and post-Roe futures. Women’s Studies in Communication, 46(4), 375-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2023.2264152
• Fitzgerald, J. R. (2022, August 8). Organizing for reproductive Justice: An interview with Barbara Smith. Black Perspectives. www.aaihs.org/organizing-for-reproductive-justice-an-interview-with-barbara-smith/
• Gerber Fried, M. (2013). Reproductive rights activism in the post-Roe era. American Journal of Public Health, 103(1), 10-14. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518354/
• Hartline, M. F., Crowley, E., Faraguna, E., & McCarthy, S. (2020). Coalition building for reproductive justice: Hartford as a site of resistance against crisis pregnancy centers. Reflections, 20(2), 121-150. https://reflectionsjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/V20.N2.Hartlinetal.pdf
• Hartmann, B., & Barajas-Roman, E. (2009, January 29-30). Reproductive justice, not population control: Breaking the wrong links and making the right ones in the movement for climate justice [Paper]. WE ACT for Environmental Justice conference on Advancing Climate Justice: Transforming the Economy, Public Health and Our Environment, New York, New York. https://opencuny.org/earthseededucation/files/2013/08/Hartmann-and-Barajas-Roman.pdf
• Hyatt, E. G., McCoyd, J. L. M., & Diaz, M. F. (2022). From abortion rights to reproductive justice: A call to action. Affilia, 37(2), 194-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099221077153
• Morrison, J. C. (2019). Resuscitating the Black body: Reproductive justice as resistance to the state’s property interest in Black women’s reproductive capacity. Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 31(1), 35-56. https://openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.13051/7124/Resuscitating_the_Black_Body_Reproductive_Justice.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
• Mubeezi, N. A. L. (2021, August 19). Making Maputo Protocol a reality through feminist litigation of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. African Feminism. africanfeminism.com/making-maputo-protocol-a-reality-through-feminist-litigation-of-womens-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights/
• Ross, L. J. (2017). Reproductive justice as intersectional feminist activism. Souls, 19(3), 286-314. https://doi.org/10.1080/10999949.2017.1389634

Popular Press

• Bader, E. J. (2023, December 28). 18 months after ‘Dobbs,’ here’s how abortion providers and activists see things. Truthout. truthout.org/articles/18-months-after-dobbs-heres-how-abortion-providers-and-activists-see-things/
• Becker, A. (2021, November 30). What ‘pro-life feminists’ are arguing in the Mississippi abortion case. The 19th. 19thnews.org/2021/11/pro-life-feminists-supreme-court/
• Betteridge-Moes, M. (2023, December 14). ‘The choice is yours’: Why a feminist coalition is pushing for expanded abortion rights in Iraqi Kurdistan. The New Arab. www.newarab.com/features/kurdistan-feminist-ngo-pushes-more-abortion-rights
• Chung, A. (2023, December 14). US Supreme Court to decide access to abortion pill in major case. Reuters. www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-decide-access-abortion-pill-major-case-2023-12-13/
• Díaz, D., & Collins, J. (2022, Feb 22). Colombia joins the Green Wave. NACLA. nacla.org/colombia-joins-green-wave-legalizes-abortion
• Franco, A., & Radford, M. (2023, December 13). Florida abortion rights activists win over Republicans in ballot measure push. NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/florida-abortion-activists-win-republicans-ballot-measure-push-rcna129315
• Hernández, M. T. (2023, April 2). Activists’ network in Mexico helps U.S. women get abortions. AP News. apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-bans-mexico-us-border-76352e344ab3bd6e9170288ef5eadf1d
• Hernández, M. T. (2023, December 16). Catholic activists in Mexico help women reconcile their faith with abortion rights. AP News. apnews.com/article/catholic-abortion-rights-mexico-women-activists-9fb01d8d2f4376f27f9c693f7548c533
• Klar, R. (2022, September 14). Medical providers, activists urge Google to ban ads from anti-abortion clinics. The Hill. thehill.com/policy/technology/3641324-medical-providers-activists-urge-google-to-ban-ads-from-anti-abortion-clinics/
• Matthiesen, S. (2022, January 25). Abortion is not a “choice” without racial justice. Boston Review. www.bostonreview.net/articles/abortion-is-not-a-choice-without-racial-justice/
• McCammon, S. (2022, June 19). On Juneteenth weekend, Black activists march for abortion rights. NPR. www.npr.org/2022/06/19/1106107171/on-juneteenth-weekend-black-activists-march-for-abortion-rights?emci=6104b39b-c0f7-ec11-b47a-281878b83d8a&emdi=365f5919-d1f7-ec11-b47a-281878b83d8a&ceid=567945
• Ortiz, E. (2021, September 6). How Texas abortion law is undermining Native American women’s reproductive justice. NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/how-texas-abortion-law-undermining-native-american-women-s-reproductive-n1278494

Historical Perspectives

• Books
  • Cline, D. P. (2006). Creating choice: A community responds to the need for abortion and birth control, 1961-1973. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781403982896
  • Hume, A. (2023). Deep care: The radical activists who provided abortions, defied the law, and fought to keep clinics open. AK Press. https://www.akpress.org/deep-care.html
  • Kaplan, L. (1997). The story of Jane: The legendary underground feminist abortion service. University of Chicago Press. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-story-of-jane-the-legendary-underground-feminist-abortion-service-library-laura-kaplan/8322636?ean=9780593471081
• Other
  • Byllye Y. Avery interviewed by Loretta Ross (transcript). (2005, July 21-22). Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, Smith College. https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/vof/transcripts/Avery.pdf
  • Prescott, H. M. (2012). “Safer than aspirin”: the campaign for over-the-counter oral contraceptives and emergency contraceptive pills. In J. A. Greene & E. S. Watkins (Eds.), Prescribed: Writing, filling, using, and abusing the prescription in modern America (pp. 157-183). Johns Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/10293/prescribed
  • Press, J. (2022, October 19). The Redstockings: How the first abortion speak-out revolutionized activism. Teen Vogue. www.teenvogue.com/story/redstockings-abortion-stories
  • Wilson, T. U. (2022, August 5). Reproductive justice and Black women’s activism. Black Perspectives. www.aaihs.org/reproductive-justice-and-black-womens-activism/

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