The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)

By: Judith Walzer Leavitt and Susan M. Reverby and Janet Golden and Kylie Smith and Karen Weingarten and Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich and Katrina Kimport and Cara Delay and Maggie Vinter and Lara Freidenfelds and Shannon Withycombe and Caitlin Reed Wiesner and Kirsten Leng and Elizabeth Reis and Alicia Gutierrez-Romine and Brianna Theobald and Gillian Frank and Nora Doyle and Elizabeth Nelson and Samantha M. Williams and Ciara Breathnach and W. Jake Newsome and Joseph Gamble and Sarah Mellors Rodriguez and Averill Earls and Elizabeth Garner Masarik and Mary Fissell and Ronit Stahl and Jacqueline D. Antonovich and Emily Beckman and Cassandra Berman and Scottie Hale Buehler and John A. Carranza and Sara Collini and Kathleen Crowther and Laura Ansley and Catherine Denial and Michelle Drew and Lea Eisenstein and Sarah E. Handley-Cousins and Evan Elizabeth Hart and Sharon Folkenroth Hess and Rebecca M. Kluchin and Modupe Labode and Ian Lekus and Amanda Mahoney and Michelle Moravec and Lina-Maria Murillo and P. Mimi Bhatt and Ayah Nuriddin and Kelly S. O'Donnell and Udodiri Okwandu and Sarah Pripas-Kapit and J. Nalubega Ross and Nina Studer and Sarah Swedberg and Lauren MacIvor Thompson and Stephanie Tillman and Felicity M. Turner and Theresa Ventura and Anna Weerasinghe and Cookie Woolner and P. Mimi Niles

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Synopsis: 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 that examine reproductive health through historical research and personal experience. Featuring both new and classic pieces from the Nursing Clio blog, leading historians of reproductive health provide insights that connect past struggles with today’s ongoing battles over bodies, reproductive rights, and health care. This collection offers intimate, urgent scholarship that speaks to the present moment. A powerful resource for classrooms and individual readers alike, The Nursing Clio Reader invites reflection on how the past informs current debates, urging us to engage deeply with the history of reproductive justice in a time of unprecedented change, underscoring that indeed "the personal is historical."