Leslie J Reagan
Biographic Data
| ID | 135183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie J Reagan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie J |
| FAMILY NAME | Reagan |
| SIGNATURE | REAGAN L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Law |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From When Abortion Was a Crime to Abortion Is a Crime
From When Abortion Was a Crime to Abortion Is a Crime Leslie J. Reagan (bio) I began researching the history of abortion in the United States when I was in Judy Leavitt’s Women and Health class at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Assigned a research paper, I suggested the 1960s abortion legalization movement. “That’s too recent,” Judy replied; she advised me to instead examine the medical literature for discussions of abortion. I went to the…
Abortion Is Made a Crime Again in the United States
January 22, 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion across the United States. This forum considers the case's legacy in light of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the case on June 24, 2022, which almost immediately caused half of American states to outlaw or curtail access to abortion. With contributions from Karen Weingarten, Johanna Schoen, Belinda Waller-Peterson, Heat…
Dangerous Pregnancies
Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science, and help build two of the most enduring social movements of the late twentieth century--the reproductive rights and the disability rights movements. At most a minor rash and fever …
Abortion travels
This article examines how women crossed local and national borders in order to obtain abortions despite laws and religious injunctions that forbade abortion. Investigating that travel reveals transnational networks of information and assistance among abortion providers, physicians, feminists, and others; it also makes visible how changing laws changed patterns of abortion travel. This article considers travelling for abortion from the 19th throug…
My Daughter was Genetically Drafted with me’
This article examines war's lasting bodily legacies by focusing on the Vietnam veterans’ Agent Orange movement that arose in the mid‐1970s. This movement pushed for the recognition of the disabling effects of Agent Orange not only on veterans themselves but also on their children. By taking biological responsibility for miscarriages or children's birth defects, veteran‐fathers challenged gender norms that blamed women and required men to hide the…
Babies Without Borders
Reviewed by: Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas Leslie J. Reagan Dubinsky, Karen – Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Pp. 199. Although very few people are themselves involved in adoption—no more than an estimated 4% in the U.S.—adoption regularly hits the newspapers and stirs national passions, and has for more than a century. Why this is…
Ourselves Unborn
Rashes, Rights, and Wrongs in the Hospital and in the Courtroom
When women contracted German measles in early pregnancy, they were “entitled” to therapeutic abortion, according to one 1959 magazine. Williams Obstetrics , the standard medical textbook, advised doctors that therapeutic abortion was “justifiable” in such cases if the pregnant woman and her husband decided upon it. German measles (also known as rubella) was first recognized as a teratogen by an Australian ophthalmologist in 1941. Exposure to the …
Purity and Hygiene
Reviewed by: Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900-1930 Leslie J. Reagan David J. Pivar . Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900-1930. Contributions in American History, no. 193. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. xxi + 283 pp. $69.95 (0-313-32032-2). David Pivar examines the transition from the social purity movement to the social hygiene movement. Nineteenth-century social pu…
Conduct Unbecoming a Woman
Journal Article Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn. By Regina Morantz-Sanchez. (New York: Oxford University Press and From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology. By Deborah Kuhn McGregor. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press Get access Leslie J. Reagan Leslie J. Reagan University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
Crossing the Border for Abortions
Leslie J. Reagan, Crossing the Border for Abortions: California Activists, Mexican Clinics, and the Creation of a Feminist Health Agency in the 1960s, Feminist Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Women and Health (Summer, 2000), pp. 323-348
Reconceiving Abortion
Johanna Schoen, Reconceiving Abortion: Medical Practice, Women's Access, and Feminist Politics before and after "Roe v. Wade", Feminist Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Women and Health (Summer, 2000), pp. 349-376
Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937-40
Reviewed by: Chicago’s War on Syphilis, 1937–1940: The Times, the “Trib,” and the Clap Doctor (with an Epilogue on Issues and Attitudes in the Time of AIDS) Leslie J. Reagan Suzanne Poirier. Chicago’s War on Syphilis, 1937–1940: The Times, the “Trib,” and the Clap Doctor (with an Epilogue on Issues and Attitudes in the Time of AIDS). Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. x + 271 pp. Ill. $42.50. Full of fascinating stories, Suzanne Poirier’…
Fetal Positions
When Abortion Was a Crime
When Abortion Was a Crime
As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when many young women don't even know that there was a period when abortion was a crime, this work offers chilling and vital lessons of importance to ev…
The Empty Cradle
Reviewed by: The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present Leslie J. Reagan Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner. The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiii + 326 pp. Ill. $29.95. In this first history of infertility, Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner track the transformation of involu…
Doctors of Conscience
Reviewed by: Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after “Roe v. Wade” Leslie J. Reagan Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after “Roe v. Wade”. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. xvi + 250 pp. $24.00. Carole Joffe challenges the stereotype of the abortionist as “back-alley butcher” by showing that there were honorable physicians who provided safe abortions during the era of illeg…
Engendering the dread disease
This paper, based on an analysis of cancer articles published in popular periodical literature since the early part of the century, argues that gender has played a key role in medical and popular understandings of cancer. Cancer education, the author finds, has taught women and men different things. Public health materials created with the intention of improving health through education actually send a multiplicity of messages, not all of them he…
When Abortion Was a Crime
Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America
About to Meet Her Maker
Journal Article “About to Meet Her Maker”: Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867–1940 Get access Leslie J. Reagan Leslie J. Reagan finishing her Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is an American Legal History Fellow Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journ…
Abortion in England, 1900-1967 . Barbara Brookes Abortion, Doctors, and the Law
Ourselves Unborn
About to Meet Her Maker
Journal Article “About to Meet Her Maker”: Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867–1940 Get access Leslie J. Reagan Leslie J. Reagan finishing her Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is an American Legal History Fellow Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journ…
Engendering the dread disease
This paper, based on an analysis of cancer articles published in popular periodical literature since the early part of the century, argues that gender has played a key role in medical and popular understandings of cancer. Cancer education, the author finds, has taught women and men different things. Public health materials created with the intention of improving health through education actually send a multiplicity of messages, not all of them he…
Crossing the Border for Abortions
Leslie J. Reagan, Crossing the Border for Abortions: California Activists, Mexican Clinics, and the Creation of a Feminist Health Agency in the 1960s, Feminist Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Women and Health (Summer, 2000), pp. 323-348
Abortion travels
This article examines how women crossed local and national borders in order to obtain abortions despite laws and religious injunctions that forbade abortion. Investigating that travel reveals transnational networks of information and assistance among abortion providers, physicians, feminists, and others; it also makes visible how changing laws changed patterns of abortion travel. This article considers travelling for abortion from the 19th throug…
My Daughter was Genetically Drafted with me’
This article examines war's lasting bodily legacies by focusing on the Vietnam veterans’ Agent Orange movement that arose in the mid‐1970s. This movement pushed for the recognition of the disabling effects of Agent Orange not only on veterans themselves but also on their children. By taking biological responsibility for miscarriages or children's birth defects, veteran‐fathers challenged gender norms that blamed women and required men to hide the…
Conduct Unbecoming a Woman
Journal Article Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn. By Regina Morantz-Sanchez. (New York: Oxford University Press and From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology. By Deborah Kuhn McGregor. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press Get access Leslie J. Reagan Leslie J. Reagan University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
Reconceiving Abortion
Johanna Schoen, Reconceiving Abortion: Medical Practice, Women's Access, and Feminist Politics before and after "Roe v. Wade", Feminist Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Women and Health (Summer, 2000), pp. 349-376
About to Meet Her Maker
Journal Article “About to Meet Her Maker”: Women, Doctors, Dying Declarations, and the State's Investigation of Abortion, Chicago, 1867–1940 Get access Leslie J. Reagan Leslie J. Reagan finishing her Ph.D. in history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is an American Legal History Fellow Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journ…
Abortion in England, 1900-1967 . Barbara Brookes Abortion, Doctors, and the Law
Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America
When Abortion Was a Crime
As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when many young women don't even know that there was a period when abortion was a crime, this work offers chilling and vital lessons of importance to ev…
The Empty Cradle
Reviewed by: The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present Leslie J. Reagan Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner. The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Henry E. Sigerist Series in the History of Medicine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. xiii + 326 pp. Ill. $29.95. In this first history of infertility, Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner track the transformation of involu…
Doctors of Conscience
Reviewed by: Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after “Roe v. Wade” Leslie J. Reagan Carole Joffe. Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after “Roe v. Wade”. Boston: Beacon Press, 1995. xvi + 250 pp. $24.00. Carole Joffe challenges the stereotype of the abortionist as “back-alley butcher” by showing that there were honorable physicians who provided safe abortions during the era of illeg…
Engendering the dread disease
This paper, based on an analysis of cancer articles published in popular periodical literature since the early part of the century, argues that gender has played a key role in medical and popular understandings of cancer. Cancer education, the author finds, has taught women and men different things. Public health materials created with the intention of improving health through education actually send a multiplicity of messages, not all of them he…
When Abortion Was a Crime
Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937-40
Reviewed by: Chicago’s War on Syphilis, 1937–1940: The Times, the “Trib,” and the Clap Doctor (with an Epilogue on Issues and Attitudes in the Time of AIDS) Leslie J. Reagan Suzanne Poirier. Chicago’s War on Syphilis, 1937–1940: The Times, the “Trib,” and the Clap Doctor (with an Epilogue on Issues and Attitudes in the Time of AIDS). Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. x + 271 pp. Ill. $42.50. Full of fascinating stories, Suzanne Poirier’…
Fetal Positions
When Abortion Was a Crime
Conduct Unbecoming a Woman
Journal Article Conduct Unbecoming a Woman: Medicine on Trial in Turn-of-the-Century Brooklyn. By Regina Morantz-Sanchez. (New York: Oxford University Press and From Midwives to Medicine: The Birth of American Gynecology. By Deborah Kuhn McGregor. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press Get access Leslie J. Reagan Leslie J. Reagan University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
Crossing the Border for Abortions
Leslie J. Reagan, Crossing the Border for Abortions: California Activists, Mexican Clinics, and the Creation of a Feminist Health Agency in the 1960s, Feminist Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Women and Health (Summer, 2000), pp. 323-348
Reconceiving Abortion
Johanna Schoen, Reconceiving Abortion: Medical Practice, Women's Access, and Feminist Politics before and after "Roe v. Wade", Feminist Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2, Women and Health (Summer, 2000), pp. 349-376
Purity and Hygiene
Reviewed by: Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900-1930 Leslie J. Reagan David J. Pivar . Purity and Hygiene: Women, Prostitution, and the "American Plan," 1900-1930. Contributions in American History, no. 193. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. xxi + 283 pp. $69.95 (0-313-32032-2). David Pivar examines the transition from the social purity movement to the social hygiene movement. Nineteenth-century social pu…
Rashes, Rights, and Wrongs in the Hospital and in the Courtroom
When women contracted German measles in early pregnancy, they were “entitled” to therapeutic abortion, according to one 1959 magazine. Williams Obstetrics , the standard medical textbook, advised doctors that therapeutic abortion was “justifiable” in such cases if the pregnant woman and her husband decided upon it. German measles (also known as rubella) was first recognized as a teratogen by an Australian ophthalmologist in 1941. Exposure to the …
Babies Without Borders
Reviewed by: Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas Leslie J. Reagan Dubinsky, Karen – Babies Without Borders: Adoption and Migration Across the Americas. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Pp. 199. Although very few people are themselves involved in adoption—no more than an estimated 4% in the U.S.—adoption regularly hits the newspapers and stirs national passions, and has for more than a century. Why this is…
Ourselves Unborn
My Daughter was Genetically Drafted with me’
This article examines war's lasting bodily legacies by focusing on the Vietnam veterans’ Agent Orange movement that arose in the mid‐1970s. This movement pushed for the recognition of the disabling effects of Agent Orange not only on veterans themselves but also on their children. By taking biological responsibility for miscarriages or children's birth defects, veteran‐fathers challenged gender norms that blamed women and required men to hide the…
Dangerous Pregnancies
Dangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science, and help build two of the most enduring social movements of the late twentieth century--the reproductive rights and the disability rights movements. At most a minor rash and fever …
Abortion travels
This article examines how women crossed local and national borders in order to obtain abortions despite laws and religious injunctions that forbade abortion. Investigating that travel reveals transnational networks of information and assistance among abortion providers, physicians, feminists, and others; it also makes visible how changing laws changed patterns of abortion travel. This article considers travelling for abortion from the 19th throug…
Abortion Is Made a Crime Again in the United States
January 22, 2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion across the United States. This forum considers the case's legacy in light of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn the case on June 24, 2022, which almost immediately caused half of American states to outlaw or curtail access to abortion. With contributions from Karen Weingarten, Johanna Schoen, Belinda Waller-Peterson, Heat…
From When Abortion Was a Crime to Abortion Is a Crime
From When Abortion Was a Crime to Abortion Is a Crime Leslie J. Reagan (bio) I began researching the history of abortion in the United States when I was in Judy Leavitt’s Women and Health class at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Assigned a research paper, I suggested the 1960s abortion legalization movement. “That’s too recent,” Judy replied; she advised me to instead examine the medical literature for discussions of abortion. I went to the…
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