From the Clinics to the Capitol - How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary

"An extremely important work that sheds light on the current status (and historical evolution) of the antiabortion movement and its relationship to other right-wing movements in ways no other work does. This is brilliant."--Carole Joffe, coauthor of After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion

"Mason has come up with a significant, indeed urgent, treatment of the antiabortion movement. She treats the full integration of antiabortion activists and organizations into the extreme right. Or rather, she demonstrates how antiabortion politics--its ideology, its groups, its figures both well known and less so--have from its beginnings through to January 6 and beyond been components of the leading edge of the most extreme US right wing, including those engaged in violent militia actions."--Lawrence Rosenthal, author of Empire of Resentment: Populism's Toxic Embrace of Nationalism

About the author

Carol Mason, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Otis A. Singletary Endowed Chair in the Humanities at the University of Kentucky, is author of several books about the rise of the Right since the 1960s.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Mason, Mason Carol
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 09.09.2025
• EAN: 9780520397040
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39704-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control, Social discrimination & inequality, Feminism & feminist theory, Ethical issues: abortion & birth control, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Feminism and feminist theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Ethical issues: abortion and birth control, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice