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The Nursing Clio Reader

Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice

by Jacqueline D. Antonovich, Jacqueline D. Antonovich, Laura Ansley, Sarah E. Handley-Cousins, Emily Beckman, Cassandra Berman, Ciara Breathnach, Scottie Hale Buehler0, John A. Carranza1, Sara Collini2, Kathleen Crowther3, Cara Delay4, Catherine Denial5, Nora Doyle6, Michelle Drew7, Averill Earls8, Lea Eisenstein9, Mary Fissell0, Gillian Frank1, Lara Freidenfelds2, Joseph Gamble3, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine4, Evan Elizabeth Hart5, Sharon Folkenroth Hess6, Katrina Kimport7, Rebecca M. Kluchin8, Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich9, Modupe Labode0, Judith Walzer Leavitt1, Ian Lekus2, Kirsten Leng3, Amanda Mahoney4, Elizabeth Garner Masarik5, Michelle Moravec6, Lina-Maria Murillo7, Elizabeth Nelson8, W. Jake Newsome9, P. Mimi Bhatt0, Ayah Nuriddin1, Kelly S. O'Donnell2, Udodiri Okwandu3, Sarah Pripas-Kapit4, Elizabeth Reis5, Susan M. Reverby6, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez7, J. Nalubega Ross8, Ronit Stahl9, Nina Studer0, Sarah Swedberg1, Brianna Theobald2, Lauren MacIvor Thompson3, Stephanie Tillman4, Felicity M. Turner5, Theresa Ventura6, Maggie Vinter7, P. Mimi Niles8, Anna Weerasinghe9, Karen Weingarten0, Caitlin Reed Wiesner1, Samantha M. Williams2, Shannon Withycombe3, Cookie Woolner4, Professor Janet Golden5, Dr. Kylie Smith, Ph.D6 ...

Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays ... Read more

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On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, stripping federal protection for abortion rights and placing control in the hands of individual states. This monumental shift in policy underscores the need for deeper historical perspectives on reproductive rights.The Nursing Clio Reader answers that call, bringing together essays
... Read more
The Famous Lady Lovers

Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall

by Cookie Woolner ...

Series series Gender and American Culture
Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black “lady lovers”—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black lady lovers grew, and ... Read more

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Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black “lady lovers”—as women who loved women were then called—crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black lady lovers grew, and
... Read more

Fatal Invention

How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

by Dorothy Roberts ...

An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

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An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a
... Read more

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Flapper

A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern

by Joshua Zeitz ...

Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade.The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted.Flapper is an ... Read more

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Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade.The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted.Flapper is an
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Killing the Black Body

Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

by Dorothy Roberts ...

Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.**"A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful ... Read more

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Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.**"A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful
... Read more

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I'm Sorry for My Loss

An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America

by Rebecca Little, Colleen Long ...

A must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America.I'm Sorry for My Loss delves into the abyss of pregnancy loss, a topic that is misunderstood and full of guilt and shame, written with emotional resonance and humor by authors who have both been through it themselves. Rebecca Little and Colleen Long, childhood friends who grew up to be journalists, enlighten readers on ... Read more

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A must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America.I'm Sorry for My Loss delves into the abyss of pregnancy loss, a topic that is misunderstood and full of guilt and shame, written with emotional resonance and humor by authors who have both been through it themselves. Rebecca Little and Colleen Long, childhood friends who grew up to be journalists, enlighten readers on
... Read more

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Gay New York

by George Chauncey ...

The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the ... Read more

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The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the
... Read more
Without Children

The Long History of Not Being a Mother

by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington ...

A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely, refreshingly open-hearted study of the choices women make and the cards they’re dealt” (Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can’t Sleep).In an era of falling births, it’s often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose ... Read more

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A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely, refreshingly open-hearted study of the choices women make and the cards they’re dealt” (Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can’t Sleep).In an era of falling births, it’s often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose
... Read more

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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers

A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

by Lillian Faderman ...

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts,
... Read more
Pro

Reclaiming Abortion Rights

by Katha Pollitt ...

A New York Times Book Review Notable BookFrom noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights presents a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good. As the Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide, this urgent, controversial book reframes abortion as a ... Read more

$15.19 USD

A New York Times Book Review Notable BookFrom noted feminist and longtime columnist for The Nation, award-winning author Katha Pollitt's Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights presents a powerful argument for abortion as a moral right and social good. As the Supreme Court is set to overturn the landmark decision that legalized abortion nationwide, this urgent, controversial book reframes abortion as a
... Read more
To Believe in Women

What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History

by Lillian Faderman ...

A unique and "often quite moving" look at gay women's role in US history ( The Washington Post).In this "essential and impassioned addition to American history," the three-time Lambda Literary Award winner and author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers focuses on a select group of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century lesbians who were in the forefront of the battle to procure the rights and ... Read more

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A unique and "often quite moving" look at gay women's role in US history ( The Washington Post).In this "essential and impassioned addition to American history," the three-time Lambda Literary Award winner and author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers focuses on a select group of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century lesbians who were in the forefront of the battle to procure the rights and
... Read more
The Icon and the Idealist

Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

by Stephanie Gorton ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE ASJA AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/HISTORYA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped the fight for reproductive rights in America.In the 1910s, as the American birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger ... Read more

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE ASJA AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/HISTORYA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped the fight for reproductive rights in America.In the 1910s, as the American birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger
... Read more

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