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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Description: In today's post-Roe v. Wade world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to reproductive health services, and criminalization of people who are gestating are changing by the minute. Today I’m joined by Dr. Caitlin Killian, the editor of and one of the contributors to a new book from Bloomsbury Academic, Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts: A Reader. I’m also pleased to host two of the chapter authors, Drs. Nancy Hiemstra and Jaya Keaney.
Using a reproductive justice framework, Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts walks students through the soci...