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The structure of the African American family has been a recurring theme in American discourse on the African American community. The role of African American mothers especially has been the cause of heated debates since the time of Reconstruction in the 19th century. The discourse, which often saw the African American family as something that needed fi xing, also put the issue of women's reproductive rights on the political agenda. Taking a long-term perspective from the 1920s to the early 1990s, Anne Overbeck aims to show how normative notions of the American family infl uenced the perspective on the African American family, especially African American women. The book follows the negotiations on African American women's reproductive rights within the context of eugenics, modernization theory, overpopulation, and the War on Drugs. Thereby it sets out to trace both continuities and changes in the discourse on the reproductive rights of African American women that still infl uence our perspective on the African American family today.

Reproductive rights.

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"Parce qu’ils avaient laissé mourir faute de soins leur quatrième enfant, Ginette et Claude Bac furent condamnés à sept ans de réclusion par la cour d’assises de la Seine en juin 1954. Cassé pour vice de forme, le jugement fut ramené lors d’un second procès à deux années, couvertes par leur détention. La gynécologue Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weill-Hallé y témoigna en leur faveur, ce qui fut déterminant. Quelques mois plus tard, elle fondait la Maternité heureuse qui devint le Planning familial. De l’affaire des époux Bac, toujours mentionnée en quelques lignes dans les ouvrages d’histoire pour avoir été un facteur déclenchant des mouvements en faveur de la contraception, on ne savait presque rien. Danièle Voldman et Annette Wieviorka font le récit du drame vécu par ce jeune couple ouvrier de Saint-Ouen, des « gens sans importance » que des grossesses rapprochées accablèrent. Elles racontent aussi comment les partisans de la légalisation de la contraception se sont emparés de ce désolant fait divers, devenu fait de société. Les déclarations de Marie-Andrée Lagroua Weill-Hallé au procès ont brisé un tabou, ouvert une brèche qui a libéré la parole des femmes et mis au jour leurs souffrances. L’opinion en a été bouleversée. Le débat public ne s’est plus refermé jusqu’au vote de la loi Neuwirth en 1967, une révolution dans l’histoire des femmes."

Birth control --- Contraception --- Reproductive rights

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"The announcement of a Health and Human Services (HHS) rule requiring insurance providers to cover the costs of contraception as part of the Affordable Care Act sparked widespread political controversy. How did something that millions of American women use regularly become such a fraught political issue? In The Politics of the Pill, Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten explore how gender has shaped contemporary debates over contraception policy in the U.S. Within historical context, they examine the impact that women and perceptions of gender roles had on media coverage, public opinion, policy formation, and legal interpretations from the deliberation of the Affordable Care Act in 2009 to the more recent Supreme Court rulings in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Zubic v. Burwell. Their central argument is that representation matters: who had a voice significantly impacted policy attitudes, deliberation and outcomes. While women's participation in the debate over birth control was limited by a lack of gender parity across institutions, women nevertheless shaped policy making on birth control in myriad and interconnected ways. Combining detailed analyses of media coverage and legislative records with data from public opinion surveys, survey experiments, elite interviews, and congressional testimony, The Politics of the Pill tells a broader story of how gender matters in American politics."-- From publisher.

Birth control. --- Population control --- Pregnancy --- Family planning --- Contraception --- Reproductive rights --- Prevention

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The United States may never make abortion completely illegal, but in many states, abortion is accessible in name only due to lack of clinics, expense, waiting periods or other issues. And if Roe v. Wade is overturned, those same states will likely make abortion illegal within their borders. The End of Roe v. Wade builds off of the 2013 book Crow After Roe, expanding and updating the original chapters detailing anti-abortion model legislation meant to challenge Roe v. Wade such as 20-week abortion bans, "heartbeat" bans, "feticide" charges and TRAP laws. The book will also includes additional chapters highlighting new threats to abortion rights since 2013, including D&E bans, "fetal endangerment" laws, the Trump Administration's unprecedented federal efforts to end access to abortion and contraception, and an analysis of Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt, the first major abortion rights decision since 1992's Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The End of Roe v. Wade also looks at the inevitable rise of self-induced abortion in a post-Roe landscape, detailing the next big battle over abortion in the U.S. -- those who chose to end pregnancies outside of the legal medical system against those who will prosecute them when and if they are caught. The end of Roe v. Wade may be just around the corner. This book tells how we got there, and what will happen next.

Etats-Unis --- Abortion --- Abortion --- Reproductive rights --- Abortion --- Abortion --- Pro-life movement --- Pro-choice movement

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Over the past 300 years, there have been countless attempts by governments of all types to control fertility and reproduction. Currently, more than 170 countries representing over 85% of humanity are actively trying to engineer how many children a person will have. Democratic, authoritarian, religious, secular, Western, Eastern and African states have all tried with little success to control individual fertility decisions. This book analyses the origins, growth and development of fertility as a national and international political issue; the rise and fall of the discourses used to ascribe meaning to natality; and the global proliferation of isomorphic policies adopted by widely dissimilar states.

Birth control --- Population policy. --- Government policy. --- Population planning --- Social policy --- Population control --- Pregnancy --- Family planning --- Contraception --- Reproductive rights --- Prevention