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What transpired socially, politically, legally, in religious institutions and in popular culture in the half-century when “the right to choose” led to this stunning transformation in American society? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eFifty Years After\u003c\/i\u003e, coedited by Rhae Lynn Barnes and Catherine Clinton for the History in the Headlines series, brings together a team of world-renowned scholars, prizewinning historians, and Pulitzer Prize-winning public intellectuals who specialize in reproductive history. They assembled at Harvard University in the weeks following the \u003ci\u003eDobbs\u003c\/i\u003e decision to talk through the centuries-long history of abortion in what became the United States, how its representation changed in the law and popular culture, and how a wellspring of social movements on both the right and left led to a fifty-year showdown over some of the most outstanding human questions: What is life? When does it begin? Who has the right to end it? Who has the right to determine what happens to someone else’s body? How can the law define and restrict women’s reproductive health? And how have race, class, geography, sexuality, and other factors shaped who gets to be a part of answering these questions? The international impact of the struggles for reproductive freedom for women within the United States comes into sharp focus within this important volume, shedding light on past, present, and future dimensions of reproductive freedom for all Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295091503477,"sku":"9780820365671","price":23.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780820365671_2371d4f5-37b9-41b6-912e-6878ec0952d9.jpg?v=1786015643"},{"product_id":"9780008325800","title":"Nina Simone and the World She Made","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘I can't think of anyone on earth who could bring us this unique woman except Salamishah Tillet – and right now, we need Nina Simone more than ever’ GLORIA STEINEM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Nina Simone was a transformative figure in American culture, and this is a story of how she transformed it' QUESTLOVEA powerful exploration of Nina Simone’s life and unique legacy by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Salamishah Tillet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did Eunice Waymon, child prodigy of the segregated South, become Nina Simone, musical icon and civil rights activist? In a piercing blend of biography, criticism and memoir, Salamishah Tillet traces one of the most extraordinary transformations in music history. When racism thwarted her career as a classical pianist, Simone reinvented herself and began blending her classical training with jazz, blues, and gospel to create a sound wholly her own – one that would catapult her to stardom, and into the heart of the Black Power movement. Decades later, Simone’s music inspired the hip-hop generation and Tillet’s own political awakening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring Simone through the women who shaped her and those whom she shaped, from Billie Holiday to Lauryn Hill, Tillet considers Simone in a community of black female geniuses, and reveals the struggles and sacrifices involved in making art and activism. This intimate portrait brings us close to Simone, while showing us how the singer’s voice, in all its pain and promise, resonates in the fight for equality around the world today. 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Published in the Reagan era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the Jazz Age novel tells the story of racial and gender inequality through the life of a 14-year-old girl from Georgia who is haunted by domestic and sexual violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker’s epistolary novel and shows how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist. \u003ci\u003eThe Color Purple\u003c\/i\u003e received both praise and criticism upon publication, and the conversation it sparked around race and gender still continues today. It has been adapted for an Oscar-nominated film and a hit Broadway musical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through archival research and interviews with Walker, Oprah Winfrey, and Quincy Jones (among others), Tillet studies Walker’s life and how themes of violence emerged in her earlier work. 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