Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Featured Items

Delve into reproduction and pregnancy.

Birth in Times of Despair: Reproductive Violence on the US-Mexico Border

Author

Carina Heckert

Description

Focuses on immigration and health care policies that affect experiences of pregnancy and childbirth.

Year

2024

Assisted Reproduction, Discrimination, and the Law

Author

Michelle Weldon-Johns

Description

Focuses on the United Kingdom.

Year

2020

Decision-Making Process around Teenage Motherhood: A Qualitative Exploration of Early Childbearing in Nicaragua

Author

Miriam Müller

Description

Focuses on urban teenagers living in poverty.

Year

2020

Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade

Author

Sara Matthiesen

Description

Focuses on groups including black women, incarcerated women, lesbians, and poor women.

Year

2021

Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began

Author

Leah Hazard

Description

Covers topics including anatomy, functions, medical history, research, and societal views that are affected by discrimination and misogyny.

Year

2023

Policing Pregnant Bodies: From Ancient Greece to Post-Roe America

Author

Kathleen M. Crowther

Description

Covers topics including abortion, bodily autonomy, miscarriage, and maternal mortality, and paid maternity leave.

Year

2023

Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union

Author

Mie Nakachi

Description

Examines reproductive policies and their effects from the legalization of abortion in 1920 through the restrictions and changes in ideas about gender equity after 2000.

Year

2021

Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents with Disabilities

Editor

Tafadzwa Rugoho and France Maphosa

Description

Case studies of educational programs and health services around the world.

Year

2021

Challenging Pregnancy: A Journey through the Politics and Science of Healthcare in America

Author

Genevieve Grabman

Description

Examines the affects that anti-abortion policies have on decision-making by physicians and patients, maternal health care, and reproduction.

Year

2022

Giving Birth to a Subject: Transition to Motherhood as an Embodied and Technologically Mediated Experience

Author

Biljana Stanković

Description

Based on interviews with women primarily in Serbia.

Year

2024