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A New Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy
Dec 19 2023
By Jennifer Hendricks, author of Essentially a Mother: A Feminist Approach to the Law of Pregnancy and MotherhoodWhen the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and abolished the right to abortion, the court trivialized pregnancy and its impact on women’s lives. Nowhere in its opinion did the
UC Press Award-Winning Authors
Nov 11 2022
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from October 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr 2022 John C. Ewers Award Wes
A Land Acknowledgment on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Oct 10 2022
By UC Press Executive Editor Niels HooperOver the summer, I drove from Truckee (which is on Washoe/Northern Paiute Land) down the Central Valley (which is land of multiple native peoples including Miwok and Yokuts people) to Los Angeles, Chumash and Tongva land. I couldn’t help appreciating on m
An Obstetrical Las Vegas: What Colorado’s 1967 Abortion Law Tells us About 2020 America
Oct 15 2020
By Jennifer L. Holland, author of Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion MovementThe 2020 edition of American politics is showing once again the power of a politized conservative minority —for whom legal abortion trumps all other issues. For these conservatives, abortion is murder, and