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- A Woman’s Life Is a HumanLife is a brave, timely, and potent corrective to the receivedwisdom of Roe v. Wade and to reproductive rights in New York and thenation, pulling together the history of two key victories pre- and post-Roev. Wade that were pioneered by a diverse group of women activists.
- It rectifies thelongstanding misconception that the Supreme Court gave us abortion access – avictory that was won by activists and set off a national wave of others. TheSupreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade was greatly influenced by thesealready won victories, as well as the impact it would have on things likeprofessional organizations run by doctors and lawyers.
- It is also an importantreckoning with what the feminism of the time left out, with vital lessons fortoday’s activists on how life experience can limit or expand the futures weenvision. When middle-class white feminists failed to see how the sterilizationof poor women and women of color was part of the reproductive freedom agenda,they not only let their movement down but also, Kornbluh argues, missed achance to escape the secular vs. religious binary that has set the terms of thedebate ever since.
- It’s also chock full ofgreat stories – from the abortion referral service started by a groupprogressive Christian and Jewish clergy; to the fraught moment in the stateAssembly when a decisive vote was changed despite electoral suicide; to theoccupation of the Bronx’s substandard Lincoln Hospital by the Young Lords,abetted by a group of activist doctors – this is lively, on the ground historywith truth and real stakes in ordinary lives.
- Includes exclusiveinterviews with the activists who led the reproductive justice movement as wellas its leading historians and never-seen archival sources.
- The first in-depth study of a winning campaign against a state's abortion law, and the first book to take the sterilization abuse fight side by side.
- Felicia is an establishedwriter. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Los AngelesTimes, The Nation, In These Times, and the Women’s Reviewof Books.
- A Woman’s Life Is a HumanLife will feature photos, both private and public, of the peopleleading the 1970s reproductive rights movements, such as Meredith Tax, KarenStamm, Dr. Helen Rodríguez-Trías, Betty Friedan, Florynce Kennedy,Ti-Grace Atkinson, Sarah Schulman, and more.
- We expect jacket blurbsfrom a sensational collection of authors, journalists, and activists. Pulitzer Prize winning author David Garrow, prize-winning author Leslie J.Reagan, Sarah Schulman, Alix Kates Shulman, and historian Linda Gordon havealready weighed in.
- Strong potential academicoutreach – the book is an ideal primer for readers who are not yet familiarthis history and lends itself to course adoption.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9780802162663
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 432
- Utgivningsdatum: 2024-01-16
- Förlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press