The Politics of Reproduction

Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism

Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson, Eds.

“[Shows] us how the notion of ‘choice’ works in the context of the transnational force of neoliberalism and other inequalities … to produce reproduction that is more, not less, stratified.” —Laura Briggs

Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood

Allison L. Rowland

“Brings together rhetorical and biopolitical theory in a groundbreaking study of how and why entities are brought into humanhood and granted ethical and political value.” —Jenell Johnson

Any Friend of the Movement

Networking for Birth Control, 1920–1940

Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyter

“Makes an important contribution to … scholarship that seeks to uncover the great variability in the struggle for both the legalization of birth control and the provision of contraception to American women.” —Journal of American History

The Guild of the Infant Saviour

An Adopted Child’s Memory Book

Megan Culhane Galbraith

An adoptee’s memoir and cultural history of pre-Roe v. Wade adoption in the US.

Bodies of Technology

Women’s Involvement with Reproductive Medicine

Ann R. Saetnan, Nelly Oudshoorn, and Marta Kirejczyk, Eds.

“[Shows] that a careful reflection on reproductive techniques is sharpened by attention to the details of specific contexts.” —The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics

On Our Way Home from the Revolution

Reflections on Ukraine

Sonya Bilocerkowycz

“An emotionally urgent personal reckoning.” —Los Angeles Review of Books