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Articles in Gender & Sexuality tagged with Health

Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.

James Nelson, Elizabeth Sepper

Harm reduction strategies have the best chance of stopping this disease.

Joshua Gutterman Tranen

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

Breanne Fahs

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

Rachel Rebouché

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.

Rachel Rebouché
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.
Sara Matthiesen
My patients and I don’t use words like “choice” or “viability.”
Christine Henneberg

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

Judith Levine
Liberalism cannot simply be extended to the uterus. Reproductive justice requires a vision of the social body.
Abby Minor
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.
Mary Ziegler

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