Karen Weingarten
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Weingarten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Weingarten |
| SIGNATURE | WEINGARTEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3547-0275 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
There Are Only People: Lessons from the Movement to Repeal Abortion Laws, 1963–1970
This article traces the history of American abortion activism in the 1960s to recover the little-discussed history of the movement to repeal all abortion laws. By focusing on five figures in this movement—Patricia Maginnis, Lana Clarke Phelan, Lawrence Lader, Caroline Myers, and Florynce Kennedy—I aim to show how the arguments legalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade were not inevitable, and that there might have been another way forward to overturn an…
Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
Making Modern Maternity
From Maternal Impressions to Eugenics: Pregnancy and Inheritance in the Nineteenth-Century U.S
Fifty Years since Roe v. Wade: Forum
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, Heath…
Introduction: An Intersectional Inheritance
Introduction:An Intersectional Inheritance Karen Weingarten (bio) and Maria Rice Bellamy (bio) In 1973, on a trip to Tanzania, Angela Davis noticed a group of Masai women balancing wooden boards on their heads because they were in the process of constructing new homes for their village (Davis 1981). Davis, intrigued by the central role women played in the building process, inquired further, and learned that because women in this community were re…
Philosophy's Futures: The Reproductive Body's Turn
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Talking Sex: The Rhetorics of Reproduction, Sex Education, and Sexual Expression in the Modern United States
TalkingSex: The Rhetoricsof Reproduction, Sex Education, and Sexual Expression in theModern United States Karen Weingarten Books Discussed in This Article Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938. By Laura Lovett. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924. By Robin Jensen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Se…
Impossible Decisions: Abortion, Reproductive Technologies, and the Rhetoric of Choice
Juno, directed by Jason Reitman and released in late 2007, portrays a quirky, pregnant sixteen-year-old, who decides not to obtain an abortion and finds an upper-middle-class family to adopt her ch
Bad Girls and Biopolitics: Abortion, Popular Fiction, and Population Control
Bad Girls and Biopolitics: Abortion, Popular Fiction, and Population Control Karen Weingarten (bio) Were the white world to-day really convinced of the supreme importance of race-values, how long would it take to stop debasing immigration, reform social abuses that are killing out the fittest strains, and put an end to the feuds which have just sent us through hell and threaten to send us promptly back again? Lothrop Stoddard The Rising Tide of C…
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (review)
Reviewed by: Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things Karen Weingarten (bio) Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, 200 pp. $74.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. A pile of trash, a scrap of metal, an overtaxed energy grid, hungry worms, and embryonic stem cells: these are just some of the main characters in Jane Bennett’s short though ambitious work that lays out her theory of vital materi…
Authoring Wikis: Rethinking Authorship through Digital Collaboration
Between the Town and the Mountain: Abortion and the Politics of Life in Edith Wharton's Summer
In the early twentieth century, American laws focused on women's reproductive capacities and were coalescing into the ethical and moral frameworks that subtend American reproductive politics today. Edith Wharton published her 1917 novel, Summer, at a time when anti-abortion sentiment was widespread in American culture. Through a reading of Summer, the article provides a theoretical and historical framework for understanding this new American obse…
Introduction: An Intersectional Inheritance
Introduction:An Intersectional Inheritance Karen Weingarten (bio) and Maria Rice Bellamy (bio) In 1973, on a trip to Tanzania, Angela Davis noticed a group of Masai women balancing wooden boards on their heads because they were in the process of constructing new homes for their village (Davis 1981). Davis, intrigued by the central role women played in the building process, inquired further, and learned that because women in this community were re…
Impossible Decisions: Abortion, Reproductive Technologies, and the Rhetoric of Choice
Juno, directed by Jason Reitman and released in late 2007, portrays a quirky, pregnant sixteen-year-old, who decides not to obtain an abortion and finds an upper-middle-class family to adopt her ch
Between the Town and the Mountain: Abortion and the Politics of Life in Edith Wharton's Summer
In the early twentieth century, American laws focused on women's reproductive capacities and were coalescing into the ethical and moral frameworks that subtend American reproductive politics today. Edith Wharton published her 1917 novel, Summer, at a time when anti-abortion sentiment was widespread in American culture. Through a reading of Summer, the article provides a theoretical and historical framework for understanding this new American obse…
Bad Girls and Biopolitics: Abortion, Popular Fiction, and Population Control
Bad Girls and Biopolitics: Abortion, Popular Fiction, and Population Control Karen Weingarten (bio) Were the white world to-day really convinced of the supreme importance of race-values, how long would it take to stop debasing immigration, reform social abuses that are killing out the fittest strains, and put an end to the feuds which have just sent us through hell and threaten to send us promptly back again? Lothrop Stoddard The Rising Tide of C…
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (review)
Reviewed by: Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things Karen Weingarten (bio) Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010, 200 pp. $74.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. A pile of trash, a scrap of metal, an overtaxed energy grid, hungry worms, and embryonic stem cells: these are just some of the main characters in Jane Bennett’s short though ambitious work that lays out her theory of vital materi…
Authoring Wikis: Rethinking Authorship through Digital Collaboration
Impossible Decisions: Abortion, Reproductive Technologies, and the Rhetoric of Choice
Juno, directed by Jason Reitman and released in late 2007, portrays a quirky, pregnant sixteen-year-old, who decides not to obtain an abortion and finds an upper-middle-class family to adopt her ch
Talking Sex: The Rhetorics of Reproduction, Sex Education, and Sexual Expression in the Modern United States
TalkingSex: The Rhetoricsof Reproduction, Sex Education, and Sexual Expression in theModern United States Karen Weingarten Books Discussed in This Article Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938. By Laura Lovett. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924. By Robin Jensen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Se…
Philosophy's Futures: The Reproductive Body's Turn
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction: An Intersectional Inheritance
Introduction:An Intersectional Inheritance Karen Weingarten (bio) and Maria Rice Bellamy (bio) In 1973, on a trip to Tanzania, Angela Davis noticed a group of Masai women balancing wooden boards on their heads because they were in the process of constructing new homes for their village (Davis 1981). Davis, intrigued by the central role women played in the building process, inquired further, and learned that because women in this community were re…
From Maternal Impressions to Eugenics: Pregnancy and Inheritance in the Nineteenth-Century U.S
Fifty Years since Roe v. Wade: Forum
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, Heath…
Making Modern Maternity
Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
There Are Only People: Lessons from the Movement to Repeal Abortion Laws, 1963–1970
This article traces the history of American abortion activism in the 1960s to recover the little-discussed history of the movement to repeal all abortion laws. By focusing on five figures in this movement—Patricia Maginnis, Lana Clarke Phelan, Lawrence Lader, Caroline Myers, and Florynce Kennedy—I aim to show how the arguments legalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade were not inevitable, and that there might have been another way forward to overturn an…
Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 works) · Abortion (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works)