Join us in welcoming Sara Matthiesen as she discusses Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade!

About Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade:

The landmark case Roe v. Wade redefined family: it is now commonplace for Americans to treat having children as a choice. But the historic decision also coincided with widening inequality, an ongoing trend that continues to make choice more myth than reality. In this new and timely history, Matthiessen shows how the effects of incarceration, for-profit healthcare, disease, and poverty have been worsened by state neglect, forcing most to work harder to maintain a family.

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Sara Matthiesen is an assistant professor of history and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at George Washington University. Her forthcoming book, Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade, explores her primary research interests--reproduction, labor, and the modern U.S. state--to explain how incarceration, disease, poverty, for-profit medical care and state neglect has forced those living in the United States to work much harder to have and maintain family. Her academic work has been published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Review, and Women’s Review of Books, and she has written for popular audiences in The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, and Jacobin.

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This event will be hosted in-person at Lost City Books! Masks will be required of attendees.

Reproduction Reconceived will be available at Lost City Books!