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A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice
Maybe someday
43
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Readers
69/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Felicia Kornbluh
Publisher:
Grove Press
Date:
January 17, 2023
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this book from historian Felicia Kornbluh reveals two movement victories in New York that forever changed the politics of reproductive rights nationally.
What The Reviewers Say
Comprehensive, compelling.
Despite the author’s best intentions, this book skews heavily toward abortion rights, sometimes giving short shrift to the broader and more inclusive vision of reproductive justice put forward by activists from marginalized communities. At the end of the book, Kornbluh wonders what might have been achieved if not for racism—a question white proponents of reproductive justice would do well to ponder in the post-Roe era..
Both timely and engaging, this insightful study reveals that the battle for abortion rights must be considered only one part of a much larger, more complex struggle that needs to address the protection of the sexual freedom and choices of all women.
Eye-opening.
