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Reproductive Rights

Date Published: 5/10/2022

The books and articles in this two-part syllabus address the impact of various global challenges to reproductive rights. The first section includes research studies from social science journals addressing contraception access, the impact of abortion bans on pregnancy-related mortality, and repercussions of state-level restrictions. The second section features work from fields such as cultural studies, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and African American studies. Topics include reproductive justice, the people-of-color-led reproductive rights movement, abortion narratives, surveillance and social control, and reproductive coercion.

The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.

Reproductive Rights and Public Policy

JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ban in the United States: A Research Note on Increased Deaths Due to Remaining Pregnant

Amanda Jean Stevenson
Demography 58:6, 2021

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Abortion Reporting in the United States: An Assessment of Three National Fertility Surveys

Laura Lindberg, Kathryn Kost, Isaac Maddow-Zimet, Sheila Desai, and Mia Zolna
Demography 57:3, 2020

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Affordable but Inaccessible? Contraception Deserts in the US States

Rebecca J. Kreitzer, Candis Watts Smith, Kellen A. Kane, and Tracee M. Saunders
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 46:2, 2021

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973–2005: Implications for Women's Legal Status and Public Health

Lynn M. Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 38:2, 2013

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Reproductive Rights and Social Justice

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Reproductive Rights

Reproductive Rights and Public Policy

The Pregnancy-Related Mortality Impact of a Total Abortion Ban in the United States: A Research Note on Increased Deaths Due to Remaining Pregnant

Abortion Reporting in the United States: An Assessment of Three National Fertility Surveys

Affordable but Inaccessible? Contraception Deserts in the US States

Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973–2005: Implications for Women's Legal Status and Public Health

Access to the Emergency Contraceptive Pill and Women's Reproductive Health: Evidence From Public Reform in Chile

The Impact of Parental Involvement Laws on the Abortion Rate of Minors

Informed or Misinformed Consent? Abortion Policy in the United States

Coercing Women's Behavior: How a Mandatory Viewing Law Changes Patients' Preabortion Ultrasound Viewing Practices

Fertility effects of abortion and birth control pill access for minors

The impact of state-level restrictions on abortion

Reproductive Rights and Social Justice

What Is Reproductive Justice?: How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm

Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience

Reproductive Injustice and the Politics of Trans Future in France

Abortion as a Contested Right in Occupied Palestine

Modern American Abortion Narratives and the Century of Silence

Beyond Islamic versus Secular Framing: A Critical Analysis of Reproductive Rights Debates in Turkey

The War on Sex

The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism

On Forbidden Wombs and Transnational Reproductive Justice

The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism’s Philosophy of History

Making Democracy Real: African American Women, Birth Control, and Social Justice, 1910–1960

Migrating Tactics: An Interview with Ewa Majewska and Katarzyna Rakowska

"The Empty Cradle of Democracy: Sex, Abortion, and Nationalism in Modern Greece"

Plastic Bodies

Reproductive Rights

Reproductive Rights and Public Policy

Reproductive Rights and Social Justice

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