Strategies For Teaching Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization Resource Collection

“Strategies for Teaching Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization” spotlighted political science scholars engaging abortion politics and reproductive rights from a variety of perspectives. APSA's Teaching & Learning Program thanks Julie Novkov (State University at Albany, SUNY), Kimala Price (San Diego State University), Renée Cramer (Drake University), and Gwendoline M. Alphonso (Fairfield University) for participating in the August 2022 webinar and sharing the select scholarship and teaching materials below.

Return to the webinar recording here.

Family Values, Identity and American Political Development

Undergraduate Syllabus, The Battle Over Family Values in American Politics, Gwendoline M. Alphonso

Polarized Families, Polarized Parties, Gwendoline M. Alphonso, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018

Stating the Family: New Directions in the Study of American Politics, Julie Novkov and Carol Nackenoff, University Press of Kansas, 2020

The Legal Construction of Motherhood and Paternity: Interracial Unions and the Color Line in Antebellum Louisiana, Gwendoline M. Alphonso, in Nackenoff, Carol and Julie Novkov, editors. Stating the Family: New Directions in the Study of American Politics, University Press of Kansas, 2020

Resurgent Parenthood: Organic Domestic Ideals and the Southern Family Roots of Conservative Ascendancy, 1980–2005, Gwendoline M. Alphonso, Polity 48, 2, 2016

One People, Under One God, Saluting One American Flag”: Trump and Republican Party Construction of American Nationalism, Gwendoline M. Alphonso in Callen, Zachary, and Philip Rocco, editors. American Political Development and the Trump Presidency, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020

Reproductive Politics in Law, Society, and Culture

Birthing A Movement: Midwives, Law, and the Politics of Reproductive Care, Renée Cramer, Stanford University Press, 2021

Pregnant with the Stars: Watching and Wanting the Celebrity Baby Bump Renée Cramer Stanford University Press, 2015

The limits of law in securing reproductive freedoms: midwife-assisted homebirth in the United States, Renée Cramer, Global Discourse, 8(3), 2018

Reproductive Justice

Graduate Course Syllabus, Reproductive Rights and Justice, Kimala Price, Spring 2022

Reproductive Politics in the United States (1st ed.), Kimala Price, Routledge, 2021

“Queering Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era: A Note on Political Intersectionality,” Kimala Price, Politics & Gender, 14(4), 2018: 581-601

Queering Reproductive Justice: Toward a Theory and Praxis for Building Intersectional, Political Alliances, Kimala Price, in Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess and Cricket Keating, editors, LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader, NYU Press: 2017

Women of Color Want Reproductive Justice, Not Just Abortion Rights, Kimala Price, The Monkey Cage, May 12, 2022

Access to reproductive health care has been harder for Black and brown women – overturning Roe made it harder, Kimala Price, The Conversation, July 7, 2022

“Black Women and the Reproductive Justice Movement: Dr. Tonya Williams and Dr. Kimala Price in conversation” The Freedom Plow, a podcast by The National Conference of Black Political Scientists, Uploaded on June 18, 2020 

What Is Reproductive Justice?: How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm, Kimala Price, Meridians, 19, 1, 2020

“Teaching about Reproduction, Politics and Social Justice,” Kimala Price, Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 19(2) 2009: 42-54

Reproductive Rights Syllabus, Duke University Press 

Reproductive Rights and Healthcare: A Reading List, Johns Hopkins University Press

Additional Abortion Politics & Reproductive Justice Research

Abortion Politics - a collection of articles from Cambridge

Abortion Politics in the United States and Around the World - a collection from Politics & Gender

Politics, Groups, and Identities Readings on Abortion and Reproductive Rights

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