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By Grace Howard, author of The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting PersonhoodWhen I say that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are legal persons, many people may assume I’m talking about the recent opinion that stated embryos created in the cour

Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt. Pre-traumatic stress disorder. Solastalgia. The study of environmental emotions and related mental health impacts is a rapidly growing field, but most researchers overlook a closely related concern: reproductive anxiety. Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question is the first c

Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant voices in the country to describe the impacts of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision on aborti

UC Press is thrilled to share that UC Press author Loretta Ross has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow.

We're proud to share that author Jennifer Holland has won been awarded three prestigious awards from the Western History Association for her book, Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement!The book won the Armitage-Jameson Prize for best scholarly book in western women’s and gend

Looking for more video content for your courses? We've rounded-up some recent recorded events, short lectures, and Q&As with our authors to integrate into your lesson plans.The featured books cover a wide-range of current events and social justice topics, including racial justice and Black L