{"product_id":"reproductive-justice-queerly-volume-16-hardcover","title":"Reproductive Justice, Queerly: Volume 16 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarly Thomsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn invitation into doing reproductive justice queerly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueer theory and reproductive justice need each other--now more than ever. As liberals and leftists increasingly frame reproductive justice in terms of LGBTQ+ rights, often adopting the language of \"queerness,\" it has become difficult to see that their political demands and strategies are often quite conservative. In \u003ci\u003eReproductive Justice, Queerly\u003c\/i\u003e, Carly Thomsen examines typical reproductive justice issues--including abortion, surrogacy, crisis pregnancy centers, paid parental leave, and parenting--in queer ways. She shows what can happen when we bring queer theory and reproductive justice together: a queerer, more powerful articulation of what we are fighting for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Lots of books get written but rarely are they as brave as Carly Thomsen's \u003ci\u003eReproductive Justice, Queerly\u003c\/i\u003e. Refusing to give in to the dystopic future on offer by right-wing assaults on reproductive justice, the book is also clear eyed in delineating the possibilities and pitfalls of contemporary feminist, queer, and trans grammars of gender. Readers will be startled, gratified, and at times enraged by its argument but no one will doubt the value of Thomsen's commitment to deepening left critical understandings of the challenges of the present.\"--Robyn Wiegman, author of \u003ci\u003eObject Lessons \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I'm eager to teach this timely book, which demonstrates that new thinking is possible about some of the more pressing current controversies in the reproductive justice movement. This challenge to the rigidity of dogmatic thinking about inclusiveness is urgently needed and very welcome.\"--Loretta Ross, author of \u003ci\u003eCalling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With the lives of women and trans\/queer people under attack by reactionary political forces in the United States and elsewhere, Carly Thomsen's impassioned call for greater attention to queer theory within the reproductive justice movement could not be more urgent or timely. Her intellectual and analytical contributions offer important thought tools for resisting death-dealing policies and practices in the material world.\"--Susan Stryker, author of \u003ci\u003eTransgender History: A Resource for Today's Struggle--and Tomorrow's \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Reproductive Justice, Queerly\u003c\/i\u003e is a book I will gift to my young cousin (a burgeoning feminist of color), older white women in my activist circles in the Midwest, and feminist artists of all ages. As an artist, I am especially excited about what this book teaches us about the queer possibilities of art in our fights for reproductive justice. At once rigorous in its thinking and inviting in its tone, this book has a challenge to offer all of us. What a rarity!\"--Carmen Winant, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Safe Abortion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Reproductive Justice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQueerly\u003c\/i\u003e is a brave, creative, and fierce examination of the potentials of representing, creating, and intervening in the social semantics and politics of abortions, childbirth, paid maternity leaves, surrogacy, parentage, and pregnancies. Thomsen fabulously messes up our 'straightforward' understandings of reproductive justice by framing these matters 'queerly.' To do so, she delves into uncommon cultural sites such as art exhibitions and mini golf. In a volatile 'post-\u003ci\u003eRoe\u003c\/i\u003e' political present that aims to eradicate resistance and action, Thomsen reveals novel pathways for powerful engagements towards a future that promises much more than what we have now.\"--Martin Manalansan, author of \u003ci\u003eGlobal Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Reproductive Justice, Queerly\u003c\/i\u003e grabbed me from the first page with its gracefully flowing stories and politically astute analyses. It dives deep into the devastatingly consequential sites of injustice and responds with an insistence on--even a spirited romp with--queer practice. Here is art, pedagogies, aesthetics, resistance, collective process, and of course bodies, all the ways we imagine, fight about, and live within bodies, and all that tells us about doing reproductive justice. Creatively engaged with theory and grounded in practical outcomes, the book comes alive with surprising conversations with ordinary and not-so-ordinary people who help us understand what is at stake here: reproductive justice, yes, and also conversation itself, which may be the queerest and most necessary thing of all.\"--Finn Enke, author of \u003ci\u003eTransfeminist Perspectives in and Beyond Transgender and Gender Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarly Thomsen \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing and the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. She is author of \u003ci\u003eVisibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFeminist Studies: An Introductory Reader.\u003c\/i\u003e She is also the proud creator of the world's first reproductive justice mini golf course. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53849332285747,"sku":"9780520385344","price":178.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/zyZKxf51dR9780520385344.webp?v=1786573924","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/reproductive-justice-queerly-volume-16-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}