Overview
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary ofĀ Roe v. Wade,Ā this urgent book fromĀ historian Felicia Kornbluh revealsĀ two movement victories in New York that forever changed the politics of reproductive rights nationally
Before there was a āJane Roe,ā the most important champions of reproductive rights were ordinary people working in their local communities. In A Womanās Life Is a Human Life, historian Felicia Kornbluh delivers the untold story of everyday activists who defined those rights and achieved them, in the years immediately before and after Roe v. Wade made abortion legal under federal law.
A Womanās Life Is a Human Life is the story of two movements in New York that transformed the politics of reproductive rights: the fight to decriminalize abortion and the fight against sterilization abuse, which happened disproportionately in communities of color and was central to an activism that was about the right to bear children, as well as not to. Each initiative won key victories that relied on people power and not on the federal courts. Their histories cast new light on Roe and constitutional rights, on the difficulty and importance of achieving a truly inclusive feminism, and on reproductive politics today.
This is a book full of drama. From dissident Democrats who were the first to try reforming abortion laws and members of a rising feminist movement who refashioned them, to the nationās largest abortion referral service established by progressive Christian and Jewish clergy, to Puerto Rican activists who demanded community accountability in healthcare and introduced sterilization abuse to the movementās agenda, and Black women who took the cause global, A Womanās Life Is a Human Life documents the diverse ways activists changed the law and worked to create a world that would support all peopleās reproductive choices.
The first in-depth study of a winning campaign against a stateās abortion law and the first to chronicle the sterilization abuse fight side-by-side with the one for abortion rights, A Womanās Life Is a Human Life is rich with firsthand accounts and previously unseen sourcesāincluding those from Kornbluhās mother, who wrote the first draft of New Yorkās law decriminalizing abortion, and their across-the-hall neighbor, Dr. Helen RodrĆguez-TrĆas, a Puerto Rican doctor who cofounded the movement against sterilization abuse. In this dynamic, surprising, and highly readable history, Felicia Kornbluh corrects the record to show how grassroots action overcame the odds to create policy changeāand how it might work today.
This book title, A Woman's Life Is a Human Life (My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice), ISBN: 9780802162663, by Felicia Kornbluh, published by Grove Atlantic (January 16, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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