Reproductive rights in peril: a US dilemma
This lecture will discuss the 19th century movements in the United States to control women’s bodies through legislation and social control, including criminalization of abortion, criminalization of medical information, and other means. Included will be what are the implications for today with legislative attempts to enforce the Comstock Law, abortion bans, and some speculation on what 2025 might bring.
Catherine Clinton is the Denman Chair of American History at the University of Texas in San Antonio where she teaches courses on American women, African American history, the history of the American South, and Civil War History. She is the author or editor of over 30 books, including three acclaimed biographies: Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars (2000), Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom (2004), and Mrs. Lincoln: A Life (2008). As co-editor of the University of Georgia Series: HISTORY IN THE HEADLINES, she edited the first volume: Confederate Statues and Memorialization and is co-editor of the fourth volume in the series: Roe v. Wade: Fifty Years After (2024). She served as a consultant for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012). She is on the editorial board of Civil War History. She was elected President of the Southern Historical Association in 2016, the same year that she won a Guggenheim Fellowship and Louisiana State University Press published her Fleming Lectures: Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War. More information is available at her website: www.catherineclinton.com
, this seminar is free to attend but booking is required.
This page was last updated on 14 March 2025
