Interrogating Our White Supremacist Present: A Roundtable on Global Histories of Racial Supremacy and Reproductive Control – Part 2

By Lina-Maria Murillo Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

Part 2 of a roundtable on what global histories of racial supremacy and reproductive control can tell us about our white supremacist present

Contraception: A Concise History

By Donna Drucker Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body 0 comments

Contraception: A Concise History traces the history of contraceptive methods from the opening of the first public women’s contraceptive clinic in 1882 to the present.

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.

The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988

By Donna Drucker 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body 3 comments

The late 1970s and early 1980s was the historical peak of interest in the cervical cap in the United States.

The Conservative Roots of the Reproductive Rights Revolution

By Beth Bailey 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body 1 comment

Griswold v Connecticut; Eisenstadt v Baird; Roe v Wade: these cases are the building blocks of reproductive freedom in the United States.

Too Little, Too Late: The Path To Griswold v. Connecticut

By Linda Gordon 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body 1 comment

It had taken fifty years to defeat the repressive, prudish and sexist ban on birth control.