Articles in Gender & Sexuality tagged with Health

Joshua Gutterman Tranen

What the AIDS Crisis Can Teach Us About Monkeypox

Harm reduction strategies, like those pioneered by queer men of color, have the best chance of stopping this disease.

Breanne Fahs

Nine Ways That Capitalism Is Ruining Sex

Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.

Rachel Rebouché

How the Federal Government Can Fight Abortion Bans

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

Boston Review

Reproductive Justice After Roe

As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.

Rachel Rebouché

Roe Is as Good as Dead. It Was Never Enough Anyway.

It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.

Sara Matthiesen

Abortion Is Not a “Choice” Without Racial Justice

After Roe v. Wade, Angela Davis wrote about how the reproductive rights movement was failing women of color. As Roe is dismantled, her diagnosis is more crucial than ever.

Christine Henneberg

Why I Provide Abortions

My patients and I don’t use words like “choice” or “viability.”

Judith Levine

Abortion is a Public Good

The right to reproductive health and agency is a compelling state interest.

Abby Minor

Beyond Choice

Liberalism cannot simply be extended to the uterus. Reproductive justice requires a vision of the social body.

Mary Ziegler

What’s Next for Abortion Law?

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling is only the latest twist in the convoluted legal history of women’s reproductive rights. The future looks no less partisan.

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