Rickie Solinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 265149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rickie Solinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rickie |
| FAMILY NAME | Solinger |
| SIGNATURE | SOLINGER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado Sleep Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Revisiting Luker’s Classic
My Debt to Slavery
This autobiographical essay sets up a white middle-class young woman’s emergence as a rights-bearing, choice-making exemplar of sexual freedom and as a holder of intimate racial capital in the 1970s. At the same time, elites and various professional authorities were re-stamping this young woman’s Black peers with slavery- and Jim Crow–era tropes, as sexual criminals, bad choice-makers, producers of worthless and expensive children, not citizens. …
Reproductive Justice
Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer that provides a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger put the lives and lived experience of women of color at the center of the book and use a human rights analysis to show how the discussion arou…
Reproductive States
Reproductive States
This is a collection of case studies that explore when and how half of the twenty most populous countries in the world invented and implemented population policies. It presents analyses of reproductive politics in Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Nigeria, the USSR/Russia, and the United States. The essays focus on the official, organized efforts that states pursued to facilitate state decisions about how many people, and which p…
Reproductive Justice 101 Pro
Telling Stories to Change the World
Interrupted LifeExperiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
This book is a collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This work brings together many voices from both inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, s…
Telling stories to change the world
Interrupted Life
Research Article| March 01 2007 Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States: A Traveling Public Art Exhibition Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger rickie solinger is a historian writing books about reproductive politics, welfare politics, and the questions, who gets to be a “legitimate mother” in the U.S., who does not, and what do race and class have to do with this? For 15 years, Solinger has been curating and traveling exhibitions …
Pregnancy and Power
Journal Article Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America Get access Solinger Rickie. Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America. New York: New York University Press, 2005. vii, 303 pp. $27.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Jennifer Merchant Jennifer Merchant Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal…
Beggars and Choosers
Harnessing the Power of Motherhood
Journal Article Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883–1925. By Katherine G. Aiken. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xxiv, 266 pp. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-017-1.) Get access Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.2307/25…
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
Dubious Conceptions
1. The Problem and Its Human Face 2. Bastardy, Fitness, and the Invention of Adolescence 3. Poverty, Fertility, and the State 4. Constructing an Epidemic 5. Choice and Consequence 6. Why Do They Do It? 7. Teenage Parents and the Future Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Between Two Absolutes
Wake Up Little Susie
Rickie Solinger provides the first published analyses of maternity home programs for unwed mothers from 1945 to 1965, and examines how nascent cultural and political constructs such as the population bomb and the sexual revolution reinforced racially-specific public policy initiatives. Such initiatives encouraged white women to relinquish their babies, spawning a flourishing adoption market, while they subjected black women to social welfare poli…
Progressive Women in Conservative Times
Journal Article Progressive Women in Conservative Times: Racial Justice, Peace, and Feminism, 1945 to the 1960s. By Susan Lynn. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. xiv, 218 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-8135-1867-9. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8135-1868-7.) Get access Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 19…
Women and Social Action in Victorian and Edwardian England . Jane Lewis Women of the Klan
Wake Up Little Susie
Journal Article Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade. By Rickie Solinger. (New York: Routledge, 1992. xii + 324 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-415-90448-X.) Get access Beth Bailey Beth Bailey Barnard College, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 338–339, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079839 Published: 01 June 1993
Young, White, and Miserable
Journal Article Young, White, and Miserahle: Growing Up Female in the Fifties. By Wini Breines. (Boston: Beacon, 1992. xx + 261 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8070-7502-7.) Get access Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 340–341, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079841 Published: 01 June 1993
A Complete Disaster
This discussion of the politics of abortion between 1950 and 1970 in the US focuses on the following topics: legal abortions before Roe vs. Wade the difficulties of physicians in adapting abortion technology to practice the rise of hospital abortion committees the pressure from women for legal therapeutic abortion and a redefinition of pregnancy womens threat of suicide because of an unwanted pregnancy physicians threats of sterilization and the …
Race and ‘Value’
The Girl Nobody Loved
Today public discourse about pregnancy often centers on the biological or religious meaning of conception: when does life begin? When is the fetus viable? In the years between World War II and Roe v. Wade, however, public discourse about pregnancy-especially single pregnancy-assumed racially specific forms. Though in this era of rapidly rising illegitimacy rates' single pregnant women of whatever race still shared a debased social status, the cau…
Young, White, and Miserable
Journal Article Young, White, and Miserahle: Growing Up Female in the Fifties. By Wini Breines. (Boston: Beacon, 1992. xx + 261 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8070-7502-7.) Get access Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 340–341, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079841 Published: 01 June 1993
A Complete Disaster
This discussion of the politics of abortion between 1950 and 1970 in the US focuses on the following topics: legal abortions before Roe vs. Wade the difficulties of physicians in adapting abortion technology to practice the rise of hospital abortion committees the pressure from women for legal therapeutic abortion and a redefinition of pregnancy womens threat of suicide because of an unwanted pregnancy physicians threats of sterilization and the …
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
Race and ‘Value’
The Girl Nobody Loved
Today public discourse about pregnancy often centers on the biological or religious meaning of conception: when does life begin? When is the fetus viable? In the years between World War II and Roe v. Wade, however, public discourse about pregnancy-especially single pregnancy-assumed racially specific forms. Though in this era of rapidly rising illegitimacy rates' single pregnant women of whatever race still shared a debased social status, the cau…
Race and ‘Value’
Women and Social Action in Victorian and Edwardian England . Jane Lewis Women of the Klan
Wake Up Little Susie
Journal Article Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade. By Rickie Solinger. (New York: Routledge, 1992. xii + 324 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-415-90448-X.) Get access Beth Bailey Beth Bailey Barnard College, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 338–339, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079839 Published: 01 June 1993
Young, White, and Miserable
Journal Article Young, White, and Miserahle: Growing Up Female in the Fifties. By Wini Breines. (Boston: Beacon, 1992. xx + 261 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8070-7502-7.) Get access Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 340–341, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079841 Published: 01 June 1993
A Complete Disaster
This discussion of the politics of abortion between 1950 and 1970 in the US focuses on the following topics: legal abortions before Roe vs. Wade the difficulties of physicians in adapting abortion technology to practice the rise of hospital abortion committees the pressure from women for legal therapeutic abortion and a redefinition of pregnancy womens threat of suicide because of an unwanted pregnancy physicians threats of sterilization and the …
Wake Up Little Susie
Rickie Solinger provides the first published analyses of maternity home programs for unwed mothers from 1945 to 1965, and examines how nascent cultural and political constructs such as the population bomb and the sexual revolution reinforced racially-specific public policy initiatives. Such initiatives encouraged white women to relinquish their babies, spawning a flourishing adoption market, while they subjected black women to social welfare poli…
Progressive Women in Conservative Times
Journal Article Progressive Women in Conservative Times: Racial Justice, Peace, and Feminism, 1945 to the 1960s. By Susan Lynn. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992. xiv, 218 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-8135-1867-9. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-8135-1868-7.) Get access Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 19…
Between Two Absolutes
Dubious Conceptions
1. The Problem and Its Human Face 2. Bastardy, Fitness, and the Invention of Adolescence 3. Poverty, Fertility, and the State 4. Constructing an Epidemic 5. Choice and Consequence 6. Why Do They Do It? 7. Teenage Parents and the Future Appendix Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Harnessing the Power of Motherhood
Journal Article Harnessing the Power of Motherhood: The National Florence Crittenton Mission, 1883–1925. By Katherine G. Aiken. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xxiv, 266 pp. $38.00, ISBN 1-57233-017-1.) Get access Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger Boulder, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Page 247, https://doi.org/10.2307/25…
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
Beggars and Choosers
Pregnancy and Power
Journal Article Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America Get access Solinger Rickie. Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America. New York: New York University Press, 2005. vii, 303 pp. $27.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Jennifer Merchant Jennifer Merchant Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal…
Interrupted Life
Research Article| March 01 2007 Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States: A Traveling Public Art Exhibition Rickie Solinger Rickie Solinger rickie solinger is a historian writing books about reproductive politics, welfare politics, and the questions, who gets to be a “legitimate mother” in the U.S., who does not, and what do race and class have to do with this? For 15 years, Solinger has been curating and traveling exhibitions …
Telling stories to change the world
Telling Stories to Change the World
Interrupted LifeExperiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
This book is a collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world. This work brings together many voices from both inside and outside the prison system including incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, their advocates and allies, abolitionists, academics, and other analysts. In vivid, often highly personal essays, poems, s…
Reproductive States
Reproductive States
This is a collection of case studies that explore when and how half of the twenty most populous countries in the world invented and implemented population policies. It presents analyses of reproductive politics in Brazil, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Nigeria, the USSR/Russia, and the United States. The essays focus on the official, organized efforts that states pursued to facilitate state decisions about how many people, and which p…
Reproductive Justice 101 Pro
Reproductive Justice
Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer that provides a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics. Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger put the lives and lived experience of women of color at the center of the book and use a human rights analysis to show how the discussion arou…
My Debt to Slavery
This autobiographical essay sets up a white middle-class young woman’s emergence as a rights-bearing, choice-making exemplar of sexual freedom and as a holder of intimate racial capital in the 1970s. At the same time, elites and various professional authorities were re-stamping this young woman’s Black peers with slavery- and Jim Crow–era tropes, as sexual criminals, bad choice-makers, producers of worthless and expensive children, not citizens. …
Revisiting Luker’s Classic
Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Pregnancy (8 works) · History (7 works)