Overview
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights. The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays that examine reproductive health through historical research and personal experience. Featuring both new and classic pieces from the Nursing Clio blog, leading historians of reproductive health provide insights that connect past struggles with today’s ongoing battles over bodies, reproductive rights, and health care. This collection offers intimate, urgent scholarship that speaks to the present moment. A powerful resource for classrooms and individual readers alike, The Nursing Clio Reader invites reflection on how the past informs current debates, urging us to engage deeply with the history of reproductive justice in a time of unprecedented change, underscoring that indeed ""the personal is historical.""
Full Product Details
Author: The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective ,
Jacqueline D. Antonovich ,
Laura Ansley ,
Sarah E. Handley-Cousins
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781978838604
ISBN 10: 1978838603
Pages: 246
Publication Date: 30 September 2025
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""The Nursing Clio Reader highlights the struggle for sexual and reproductive freedom, the violation of groups and individuals' sexual and reproductive self-determination, and movements to fight against state control. The diversity of topics and viewpoints is outstanding, and it is similarly impressive how the editors were able to combine a diversity of viewpoints and experiences with intellectual cohesion, always turning the view back to state policies that limit the ability to control sex and reproduction."" -- Johanna Schoen * author of Abortion after Roe * ""Like the website it comes from, The Nursing Clio Reader fills an enormous need. It brings together seasoned and up-and-coming scholars of gender and medicine to address large, thematic problems, rather than narrow politics of the moment. This volume will surely be as relevant in five or ten years as it is now."" -- Jennifer L. Holland * author of Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement *
Author Information
Jacqueline D. Antonovichis an assistant professor of history at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She is the co-founder and executive editor of Nursing Clio, a peer-reviewed blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender, health, and medicine. Sarah E. Handley-Cousins is a historian, writer, and podcaster located in Buffalo, New York. Her first book, Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North, was released by UGA Press in July 2019. She is an associate teaching professor of history at the University at Buffalo. She is also an editor for the history blog Nursing Clio and producer for Dig: A History Podcast. Laura Ansley is managing editor of the American Historical Association, where she manages Perspectives on History, the AHA's booklets, the annual meeting program, and other publications. She is co-facilitator of the Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Professionals community of interest for the Society of Scholarly Publishing.
