The Nursing Clio Reader
Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice
Sarah E Handley-Cousins author Laura Ansley author The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Published:9th Sep '25
Should be back in stock very soon
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."
"Like the website it comes from, The Nursing Clio Reader fills an enormous need. It brings together seasoned and up-and-coming scholars of gender and medicine to address large, thematic problems, rather than narrow politics of the moment. This volume will surely be as relevant in five or ten years as it is now." - Jennifer L. Holland, author of Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement
"The Nursing Clio Reader highlights the struggle for sexual and reproductive freedom, the violation of groups and individuals' sexual and reproductive self-determination, and movements to fight against state control. The diversity of topics and viewpoints is outstanding, and it is similarly impressive how the editors were able to combine a diversity of viewpoints and experiences with intellectual cohesion, always turning the view back to state policies that limit the ability to control sex and reproduction." - Johanna Schoen, author of Abortion after Roe
ISBN: 9781978838598
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
246 pages