Description: Roe v. Wade Fifty Years After, coedited by Rhae Lynn Barnes and Catherine Clinton for the History in the Headlines series, brings together a team of world-renowned scholars, prizewinning historians, and Pulitzer Prize-winning public intellectuals who specialize in reproductive history.
Brief description: RHAE LYNN BARNES is an assistant professor of American cultural history at Princeton University and the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. She is public speaker, writer, editor, documentarian, onscreen commenter, and coeditor of three books, including American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History. She is the author of the forthcoming books, Darkology: When the American Dream Wore Blackface and Tragic Kingdom.
Review Quotes: The panelists and essayists speak with one voice on the need to view abortion access through a lens of reproductive justice...They believe these goals can be achieved, in part, through outreach to the American public and historical contextualization of our nation's patchwork quilt of laws and cultural perspectives concerning women's reproduction and abortion access. This book proves a significant contribution to that effort.--Carrie T. Schultz "Alexander Street"