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

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

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.”