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Roe v. Wadeis a significant contribution to the current discussions surrounding the contentious abortion debate. As more Americans seek resources to increase their understanding of the crisis surrounding bodily autonomy, this book provides readers with a better understanding of this history and the contemporary political and social justice movements fighting for reproductive justice.--Justina Licata, creator of the podcast Choice or Coercion: The Biography of Norplant

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Deirdre Cooper Owens is the Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and the Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Fiona de Londras is the Chair of Global Legal Studies at the University of Birmingham. She is author or co-author of four books and a dozen scholarly articles, including The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-Terrorism and Repealing the 8th: Reforming Abortion Law in Ireland, with Máiréad Enright. Alicia Gutierrez-Romine is Assistant Professor of History at La Sierra University. She is the author of From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969. Johanna Schoen is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is author or editor of three books and over a dozen scholarly articles, including Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare in the Twentieth Century and Abortion after Roe. Salamishah Tillet is the Henry Rutgers Professor of African American Studies & Creative Writing at Rutgers University. She is the author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination and her other writing has appeared in over half a dozen academic journals and books. Karin Wulf is Professor of History and the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library (both at Brown University). She is author of four books and a dozen articles, including Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia and the forthcoming Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America. Catherine Clinton is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has served as president of the Southern Historical Association, is an elected member of the Society of American Historians, and a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. She is the author and editor of more than two dozen volumes, including Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom; Mrs. Lincoln: A Life; Stepdaughters of History; and Civil War Stories (Georgia). Rhae Lynn Barnes is an assistant professor of American cultural history at Princeton University and the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. She is public speaker, writer, editor, documentarian, onscreen commenter, and coeditor of three books, including American Contact: Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History. She is the author of the forthcoming books, Darkology: When the American Dream Wore Blackface and Tragic Kingdom.

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