Griswold v Connecticut; Eisenstadt v Baird; Roe v Wade: these cases are the building blocks of reproductive freedom in the United States.
Tag: activism
Too Little, Too Late: The Path To Griswold v. Connecticut
It had taken fifty years to defeat the repressive, prudish and sexist ban on birth control.
“The State Does Not Belong in the Uterus of the Nation”
The Abortion Caravan authorized women to speak publicly about their experiences under Canada’s restrictive abortion laws.
Health, Reproduction, and Sex: Growing a Field for Latin Americanists
The politicization of women’s bodies is anything but new, and to understand current manifestations, we must look to the past.
Scale – Spectacle – Spectatorship: Space as a Category of Queer Analysis
Archives, exhibitions and historical sites operate as spaces through which ideas about LGBTQ identity can be renegotiated.
Queer Domesticities: Matt Cook on Home Life, Family and Community in London
Matt Cook explores queer men’s experiences of home and homemaking in the metropolis.
Straight After Death: Misremembering the Queer Life and Times of Rod McKuen
In the end, silences in the historical record may tell us as much about poor journalistic research as they tell us about antigay bias.
