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  1. Roberts, Dorothy. (1999). Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Vintage Books.
  2. Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice. 2005. A New Vision for Advancing Our Movement for Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice. https://forwardtogether.org/tools/a-new-vision/
  3. National LGBTQ Task Force, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, and National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. 2019. Transforming the Courts Through Intersectional Advocacy: A Queering Reproductive Justice Toolkit.    (And the 2023 update Queering RJ A mini-toolkit (https://www.thetaskforce.org/app/uploads/2023/05/Queering-Reproductive-Justice-Mini-Toolkit.pdf)
  4. Gutiérrez, Elena R. Fertile matters: The politics of Mexican-origin women's reproduction. University of Texas Press, 2008.
  5. López, Iris Ofelia. Matters of choice: Puerto Rican women's struggle for reproductive freedom. Rutgers University Press, 2008.
  6. Jael Silliman, et al. Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice (Cambridge: South End Press, 2004).
  7. Jade Sasser, On Fertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change (New York: NYU Press, 2018). 
  8. Joan C. Chrisler, ed. Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern (Praeger, 2014). 
  9. Bridges, Khiara. Reproducing race: An ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization. Univ of California Press, 2011.
  10. Goodwin, Michele. Policing the womb: Invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
  11. Zakiya Luna, Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice (New York: NYU Press, 2020) 
  12. Patricia Zavella, The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism (New York: NYU Press, 2020).
  13. Natalie Lira, Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s (Berkeley: UC Press, 2021).
  14. Brianna Theobald, Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2019).
  15. Krystale E. Littlejohn, Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (Berkeley: UC Press, 2021). 
  16. Dána-Ain Davis, Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (New York: NYU Press, 2019).
  17. Owens, Deidre. C. (2017). Medical bondage: Race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology. University of Georgia Press.
  18. Ross, Loretta, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, Lynn Roberts, and Pamela Bridgewater. 2017. Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique. Feminist Press at CUNY.
  19. Luna, Zakiya. (2010). Marching Toward Reproductive Justice: Coalitional (Re) Framing of the March for Women’s Lives. Sociological Inquiry, 80(4), 554–578. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682X.2010.00349.x
  20. Price, Kimala. "What is reproductive justice? How women of color activists are redefining the pro-choice paradigm." Meridians 19, no. S1 (2020): 340-362.
  21. Price, Kimala, and Marla Brettschneider. "Queering reproductive justice toward a theory and praxis for building intersectional political alliances." LGBTQ politics: A critical reader 3 (2017): 72.
  22. Fixmer-Oraiz, Natalie, and Lina-Maria Murillo. "The Term 'Life' Should Return to Us": Learning from Latin America's Green Wave." Women & Language 46, no. 1 (2023).
  23. Murillo, Lina-Maria and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, "Reproductive Justice in the Heartland: Mothering, Maternal Care, and Race in Twenty-First-Century Iowa" in Maternal Theory, ed. Andrea O’Reilly.

Compiled by:

  • Zakiya Luna, Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar, Department of Sociology, Washington University in St Louis
  • Liza Fuentes, MPH, DPH
  • Lina-Maria Murillo, Assistant Professor in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies, History, and Latina/o/x Studies at the University of Iowa.
  • Tiffany Green, Director, Reproductive Equity Action Lab, Gloria E. Sarto, MD, PhD Chair in Women's Health and Health Equity Research, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
  • Krystale Littlejohn, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
  • Rocío R. García, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Arizona State University 
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