A Woman's Life Is a Human Life - My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice

"Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers an urgent book about two key reproductive rights victories in New York that set the tone for the nation. A Woman's Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the campaign against sterilization abuse, which happened disproportionately in communities of color. Their victories occurred just before and after the Roe v. Wade decision, and their histories cast new light on the case and the fate of reproductive choice today. From dissident Democrats who were first to try reforming abortion laws, to clergy leading the nation's largest abortion referral service, to Puerto Rican activists who introduced sterilization abuse to the reproductive rights agenda, and Black women who took the cause global, A Woman's Life Is a Human Life chronicles the diverse ways activists changed the law and demanded reproductive justice. With firsthand accounts and previously unseen sources--including from her mother, who drafted New York's law decriminalizing abortion, and their across-the-hall neighbor, Dr. Helen Rodrâiguez-Trâias, a Puerto Rican doctor and leader in the movement against sterilization abuse--Felicia Kornbluh shows how grassroots action overcame the odds-and how it might work today"--

About the author

Felicia Kornbluh is Professor of History at the University of Vermont with a secondary appointment in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s studies, and an affiliated faculty member in Jewish Studies, at the University of Vermont. She is the author of The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America and coauthor, with Gwendolyn Mink, of Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective. She is a former board member of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England and current board vice president of the Planned Parenthood of Vermont Action Fund. Kornbluh lives in Williston, VT, with her spouse and two black cats.

Product details

• Authors: Felicia Kornbluh, Felicia Kornbluh
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2024
• EAN: 9780802162663
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-6266-3
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, LAW / Constitutional, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Gender studies: women and girls, Human rights, civil rights, Political ideologies and movements, Cultural policies and debates, Constitution, Political activism / Political engagement