“No Fetus Can Beat Us”: Abortion Activism on Boston-Area Campuses before Roe v. Wade
MHS Event
Cat Rosch, Brandeis University
Comment: Miriam Reumann, University of Rhode Island
This seminar will workshop a work in progress.
The event is hybrid and free of charge. An in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.
This paper focuses on abortion activism by college women in the Boston area in a moment of contradictions—the societal Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and restrictive birth control and abortion laws in Massachusetts; increased numbers of women enrolling in higher education and pervasive sexism within student life and campus activism. I aim recapture the experiences of these young women by using their own words about abortion, ranging from senior theses and opinion pieces in campus newspapers to oral histories to the records of women-led abortion action groups and radical feminist publications.
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