Lauren Macivor Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3767402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Macivor Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren Macivor |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kennesaw State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6479-006X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The History and Legacy of Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws
The figure of Anthony Comstock may seem like an odd historical relic: a repressed, puritanical, anti-sex reformer from a bygone past. And yet, because his namesake act has been revived as a potential strategy for limiting access to reproductive healthcare, Comstock is no joke. Today, some Americans see the Comstock Act, passed by Congress in 1873, as a pathway to banning abortion and other reproductive care, effectively jettisoning any need for n…
Abortion, Contraception, and the Comstock Law’s Original Medical Exemption, 1873–1936
The Comstock Act of 1873 was not meant to be, nor did it ever function as, a total abortion ban. 1 This fact is important to emphasize in our current political moment because those who want to revive the statute have argued that the Comstock Act is an existing (if dormant) law that already bans abortion on a federal level. They have also argued that the law completely outlawed abortion in the past. 2 The statute’s legislative and enforcement hist…
Felicity Turner, Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution, Claire L. JonesContraception: A Concise History, Donna J. Drucker
With the collapse of abortion rights in the United States, the right to legal contraception may not be far behind. In his concurrent opinion in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell” as the Court has a “duty to correct the error.” While the latter two cases deal with th…
Black and Indigenous Solidarity in Social Sciences: Leaning into Our Nuanced Racialized Identities and Healing Together
Our co-authored piece contributes to Black and Indigenous solidarity juxtaposed to our nuanced and convergent lived experiences as racialized people. Lauren and I (Nate)co-explore how our racialized identities and stories may complexify Black-and-Indigenous-led movements. We say "racialized" to acknowledge white supremacists' racecraft to subjugate Black and Indigenous people. Lauren, an Indigenous educator activist, and I, a Black scholar activi…
Allies, not authorities: Historical and bioethical considerations for a post‐ Roe world
A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of Covid-19
A Right to Ourselves: Women's Suffrage and the Birth Control Movement
The suffrage and birth control movements are often treated separately in historical scholarship. This essay brings together new research to demonstrate their close connections. Many suffragists became active in the birth control movement just before and after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The roots of suffrage arguments were deeply embedded in the same ideas that were foundational to the birth control movement: bodily freedom a…
Janet Golden. Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century
Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
"Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(1), pp. 9–10
The politics of female pain: Women’s citizenship, twilight sleep and the early birth control movement
The medical intervention of 'twilight sleep', or the use of a scopolamine-morphine mixture to anaesthetise labouring women, caused a furore among doctors and early 20th-century feminists. Suffragists and women's rights advocates led the Twilight Sleep Association in a quest to encourage doctors and their female patients to widely embrace the practice. Activists felt the method revolutionised the notoriously dangerous and painful childbirth proces…
The Reasonable (Wo)man”: Physicians, Freedom of Contract, and Women's Rights, 1870–1930
This article examines how ideals of contract freedom within the women's rights movement challenged medical and medical jurisprudence theories about women between 1870 and 1930. Throughout this period, medicine linked women's intellectual incapacity with problems rooted in their physical bodies. Doctors opined that reproductive diseases and conditions of pregnancy, childbirth, menstruation, and menopause rendered women disabled, irrational, and in…
Black and Indigenous Solidarity in Social Sciences: Leaning into Our Nuanced Racialized Identities and Healing Together
Our co-authored piece contributes to Black and Indigenous solidarity juxtaposed to our nuanced and convergent lived experiences as racialized people. Lauren and I (Nate)co-explore how our racialized identities and stories may complexify Black-and-Indigenous-led movements. We say "racialized" to acknowledge white supremacists' racecraft to subjugate Black and Indigenous people. Lauren, an Indigenous educator activist, and I, a Black scholar activi…
The politics of female pain: Women’s citizenship, twilight sleep and the early birth control movement
The medical intervention of 'twilight sleep', or the use of a scopolamine-morphine mixture to anaesthetise labouring women, caused a furore among doctors and early 20th-century feminists. Suffragists and women's rights advocates led the Twilight Sleep Association in a quest to encourage doctors and their female patients to widely embrace the practice. Activists felt the method revolutionised the notoriously dangerous and painful childbirth proces…
The Reasonable (Wo)man”: Physicians, Freedom of Contract, and Women's Rights, 1870–1930
This article examines how ideals of contract freedom within the women's rights movement challenged medical and medical jurisprudence theories about women between 1870 and 1930. Throughout this period, medicine linked women's intellectual incapacity with problems rooted in their physical bodies. Doctors opined that reproductive diseases and conditions of pregnancy, childbirth, menstruation, and menopause rendered women disabled, irrational, and in…
Janet Golden. Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought America into the Twentieth Century
Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
"Cesarean Section: An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence." History: Reviews of New Books, 47(1), pp. 9–10
A Right to Ourselves: Women's Suffrage and the Birth Control Movement
The suffrage and birth control movements are often treated separately in historical scholarship. This essay brings together new research to demonstrate their close connections. Many suffragists became active in the birth control movement just before and after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The roots of suffrage arguments were deeply embedded in the same ideas that were foundational to the birth control movement: bodily freedom a…
A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of Covid-19
Allies, not authorities: Historical and bioethical considerations for a post‐ Roe world
Felicity Turner, Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain before the Sexual Revolution, Claire L. JonesContraception: A Concise History, Donna J. Drucker
With the collapse of abortion rights in the United States, the right to legal contraception may not be far behind. In his concurrent opinion in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health case, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell” as the Court has a “duty to correct the error.” While the latter two cases deal with th…
Black and Indigenous Solidarity in Social Sciences: Leaning into Our Nuanced Racialized Identities and Healing Together
Our co-authored piece contributes to Black and Indigenous solidarity juxtaposed to our nuanced and convergent lived experiences as racialized people. Lauren and I (Nate)co-explore how our racialized identities and stories may complexify Black-and-Indigenous-led movements. We say "racialized" to acknowledge white supremacists' racecraft to subjugate Black and Indigenous people. Lauren, an Indigenous educator activist, and I, a Black scholar activi…
The History and Legacy of Anthony Comstock and the Comstock Laws
The figure of Anthony Comstock may seem like an odd historical relic: a repressed, puritanical, anti-sex reformer from a bygone past. And yet, because his namesake act has been revived as a potential strategy for limiting access to reproductive healthcare, Comstock is no joke. Today, some Americans see the Comstock Act, passed by Congress in 1873, as a pathway to banning abortion and other reproductive care, effectively jettisoning any need for n…
Abortion, Contraception, and the Comstock Law’s Original Medical Exemption, 1873–1936
The Comstock Act of 1873 was not meant to be, nor did it ever function as, a total abortion ban. 1 This fact is important to emphasize in our current political moment because those who want to revive the statute have argued that the Comstock Act is an existing (if dormant) law that already bans abortion on a federal level. They have also argued that the law completely outlawed abortion in the past. 2 The statute’s legislative and enforcement hist…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · American History and Culture (3 works) · Birth control (3 works) · Citizenship (3 works)