Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
The new Reproductive Justice book series publishes works that explore the contours and content of reproductive justice. The series will include primers intended for students and those new to reproductive justice as well as books of original research to continue to further knowledge and impact society.
- Reproductive Justice: An Introduction by Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger
- How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump by Laura Briggs
- Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade by Sara Matthiessen
- Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics by Krystale Littlejohn
- Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health by Chris Barcelos
- Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterlization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s by Natalie Lira
- Abortion Pills Go Global: Reproductive Freedom across Borders by Sydney Calkin
- Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade ed. Krystale Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger
Upcoming Titles
Books of original research:
- Fatal Denial: Racism and the Political Life of Black Infant Mortality by Annie Menzel
- The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood by Grace Howard
- We Are Pregnant with Freedom: Meditations on Storytelling and Reproductive Justice by Stacie McCormick
- Desiring Parenthood: The Perils and Promises of Queer Family in Homonormative Times by Tamara Leah Spira
- Ill Erotics: Black Caribbean Women and Self-Making in Times of HIV/AIDS by Jallicia Jolly
- Victim/Warriors of Whiteness: Race, Reproduction, and the Right by Carol Mason
- Queer Exchanges: Tracking the Law and Politics of LGBTQ Assisted Reproduction by Stu Marvel
- Recoding Reproductive Politics: Emerging Struggles at the Frontier of Tech-Capitalism by Grace Tillyard
- Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Border, and Reproductive Injustice in Israel/Palestine by Gala Rexer
Primers:
- Youth Organizing for Reproductive Justice: A Guide for Liberation by Chris Barcelos
- Queering Reproductive Justice by Carly Thomsen
- Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice by Camisha Russell
- Abortion and Reproductive Justice by Marlene Fried and Loretta Ross
- Disability Justice and Reproductive Justice by Alison Kafer
- Reproductive Justice and the Afterlife of Colonial Violence ed. Susanne Klausen
- From Rights to Justice: Global Reproductive Politics Since 1945 ed. Maud Bracke, Raúl Necochea López, and Jesse Olszynko-Gryn
Call for Proposals
We are now accepting submissions for books featuring original research that discuss reproductive justice within a complex context. Topics could include: abortion, assisted reproductive technology, birthing options, coerced obstetrics, criminalization of reproduction, drug use and parenting, environmental degradation and infertility, incarcerated people and reproductive rights, population control, queering family formation, and youth parenting.
Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis. Those interested in submitting to the series should provide the following materials:
- a book proposal of no more than 4,000 words
- a CV
- one or two published writing samples
Revised submissions may be submitted. Please email submissions and questions to Rickie Solinger at rickie.solinger@gmail.com. UC Press Book Proposal Guidelines can be found at www.ucpress.edu/go/bookproposal.
The Reproductive Justice series is affiliated with the Center on the Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law. Authors who secure contracts for this series will have the opportunity to apply for a Visiting Research Affiliation at the CRRJ.
Series Editors
- Rickie Solinger, Historian (Senior editor)
- Khiara M. Bridges, Anthropology and Law, University of California Berkeley School of Law (Co-editor)
- Krystale Littlejohn, University of Oregon (Co-editor)
- Ruby Tapia, Departments of English Language and Literature and Women's Studies, University of Michigan (Co-editor)
- Carly Thomsen, Middlebury College (Co-editor)
13 Results
We Are Pregnant with Freedom: Black Feminist Storytelling for Reproductive Justice
by Stacie Elizabeth Selmon McCormick (Author)Jul 2025Open AccessYouth Organizing for Reproductive Justice: A Guide for Liberation
by Chris Barcelos (Author)Mar 2025Fatal Denial: Racism and the Political Life of Black Infant Mortality
by Annie Menzel (Author)May 2024Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade
by Krystale E. Littlejohn (Editor), Rickie Solinger (Editor)Mar 2024Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s
by Natalie Lira (Author)Nov 2021Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade
by Sara Matthiesen (Author)Oct 2021Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics
by Krystale E. Littlejohn (Author)Aug 2021Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health
by Chris Barcelos (Author)Dec 2020How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump
by Laura Briggs (Author)Aug 2018