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Pathfinder: Reproductive Rights
Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications|Websites
SCOPE: The possibility of the Supreme Court decision concerning abortion in Roe V Wade being overturned is the subject for much debate. Surveys prove that more Americans favor abortion and the
woman's right to choose, but many believe that there should be restrictions on reproductive rights. There is often a furor over such birth control measures as RU-486, the abortion pill, and partial birth abortions. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for the students in locating library resources on the topic of reproductive rights. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling of some of the many types of resources that are available in the library.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with reproductive rights are listed in the Baddour Library's online catalog under the following subject headings:
Women's rights United States
Abortion law and legislation
Abortion moral and ethical aspects
Pro-choice
movement United States
Human reproductive
technology moral and ethical aspects
Human reproductive
technology political aspects
Women United States Social Conditions
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher:
Issues and Controversies database from Facts on
File
REF HQ766.E52 2001 Encyclopedia of Birth Control
REF HQ 1115.E52 2001b Encyclopedia of Women and Gender
Some representative books from the Circulating Collection are:
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Baird, Robert M. and Stuart E. Rosenbaum. The Ethics of Abortion: Pro-Life vs.-Choice. Amherst, N.Y: Prometheus Books, 2001.
Baxandall, Rosalyn and Linda Gordon. Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the
Women's Liberation Movement. New York, N.Y: Basic Books, 2000.
Becker, Gaylene.
The Elusive Embryo: How Women and Men Approach New
Reproductive Technologies. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2000.
Berkeley, Kathleen C. The
Women's Liberation Movement in America. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Fried, Marlene Gerber. From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement. Boston, Mass: South End Press, 1990.
Haussman, Melissa.
Abortion Politics in North America. Boulder, Co:
Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 2005.
Raymond, Janice G. Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle over
Women's Freedom. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1993.
Shanley, Mary Lyndon. Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents. Boston: beacon Press, 2001.
Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of reproductive rights are:
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
American Journal of Sociology
American Sociological Review
Gender & Society
Newsweek
Psychology Today
Social Problems
Sociology
Time
WEBSITES
Feminist Majority Foundation
http://www.feminist.org/rrights/intro.html
Global Reproductive Health Forum: Research Library
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/contra/info.html
NARAL Facts
& Issues Briefs
http://www.naral.org/facts/index.cfm
Now and
Abortion Rights/Reproductive Issues
http://www.now.org/issues/abortion/index.html
Very informative site created by the National Organization for Women.
Updated
02/08/2007
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