Originally published at IPPF/WHR How did a lone primate hunter in Cameroon spark the global AIDS epidemic? Tinderbox presents a fascinating history of colonialism and disease. Using new scientific evidence to trace the history of HIV, journalist Craig Timberg and…
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Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads
Across American universities, women’s studies programs face budgetary crises and marginalization in the wider academic community. In Feminist Solidarity at the Crossroads, editors Kim Marie Vaz and Gary L. Lemons explore the issues behind the crisis in women’s studies, showing…
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Lifting the Burden on Guatemala’s Isolated Communities
Originally published at IPPF/WHR In the midst of a week of torrential rains, floods, and mudslides so severe that a state of emergency was declared, Dr. Zanotty and three clinical staff inch their vehicle through the countryside of Guatemala. The…
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A Feminist Science Perspective on the IUD
In The Global Biopolitics of the IUD science and technology professor Chikako Takeshita recounts the history of intrauterine devices (IUDs) and its impact on women throughout the world. She takes a critical look at the research on contraceptives and the politics…
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Book Review: The Journey to Becoming a Midwife
Originally published at IPPF/WHR In Arms Wide Open, Patricia Harman takes the reader on a fascinating journey of how she became a certified nurse-midwife. An honest and often poetic memoir, we move with Harman through several peace activist communes in…
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Book Review: Why are LGBT People Still Seen as Criminals?
Originally published at IPPF/WHR In light of Dharun Ravi’s hate crime conviction, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States is a timely and insightful book. Documenting the LGBT community’s continuing struggle against the justice system, the authors…
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An Illegal Abortion in Mexico Changed My Life
Originally published at IPPF/WHR “Do you have a problem with blood?” “No,” I lied. “Great, I have a woman coming tomorrow at 10 am.” That simple exchange left me a changed woman. I was 22 years old and traveling alone…
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Who’s Ending Street Harassment in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Originally published at IPPF/WHR “I came to tell the truth. All I want is for justice to be done,” Gabriela Chacón said just moments before Luis Enrique Sossa Maltés was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. A…
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Book Review: Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East L.A. To Anahuac
Originally published at IPPF/WHR “This book is about the intellectual traditions of Mesoamerican women,” explains Paloma Martinez-Cruz in the opening lines of Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica: From East L.A. To Anahuac. A young Chicana college professor, Martinez-Cruz has written…
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Book Review: Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion
Originally published at IPPF/WHR Legendary birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger would likely have loved Jean H. Baker’s description of her in Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion as “an activist, propagandist, organizer, educator, advocate, and occasional martyr.” An often imperious, singleminded…
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