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SUP Congratulates Art Director Rob Ehle on his Retirement

We celebrate the retirement of our own Rob Ehle, who has worked for the Press for 30 years. In his tenure at SUP Rob has designed over 1,000 covers, and we have curated some of our favorites below.

 

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Books listed: Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire, Projections, The Right to Dignity, The Secrets of Law

 

FIGHS Event Series: Writing and Publishing Gulf History and Heritage

 

 

This event celebrates the publication of Stanford University Press’s 200th book in Middle East Studies and highlights the press’s unique strength in the burgeoning field of Gulf Studies.  The event will feature a moderated conversation between SUP’s Middle East Editor, Kate Wahl, and two SUP authors: Farah al-Nakib, author of Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life » , and Todd Reisz, author of Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai ».  The conversation will explore the role of university presses in fostering academic communities and critical scholarship, the relationship between urban studies and architecture, and the role of heritage studies in Gulf and Middle East Studies.

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RECOMMENDED READING ON THE TOPIC OF REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM

Exterior of the U.S. Supreme Court building. Photo by Ken Hammond. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

 

In light of the Supreme Court's recently leaked draft opinion on abortion, we are reposting our recommended reading list centered around reproductive freedom. We have endeavored to include books from not just a political vantage point, but also from historical and international perspectives.

 

Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico »

ELYSE ONA SINGER

 

Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion. In 2007, a watershed reform legalized the procedure in the national capital, making it one of just three places across Latin America where it was permitted at the time. Abortion care is now available on demand and free of cost through a pioneering program of the Mexico City Ministry of Health, which has served hundreds of thousands of women. At the same time, abortion laws have grown harsher in several states outside the capital as part of a coordinated national backlash.

In this book, Elyse Ona Singer argues that while pregnant women in Mexico today have options that were unavailable just over a decade ago, they are also subject to the expanded reach of the Mexican state and the Catholic Church over their bodies and reproductive lives. By analyzing the moral politics of clinical encounters in Mexico City's public abortion program, Lawful Sins offers a critical account of the relationship among reproductive rights, gendered citizenship, and public healthcare. With timely insights on global struggles for reproductive justice, Singer reorients prevailing perspectives that approach abortion rights as a hallmark of women's citizenship in liberal societies.

 

The New States of Abortion Politics »

JOSHUA C. WILSON

 

The 2014 Supreme Court ruling on McCullen v. Coakley striking down a Massachusetts law regulating anti-abortion activism marked the reengagement of the Supreme Court in abortion politics. A throwback to the days of clinic-front protests, the decision seemed a means to reinvigorate the old street politics of abortion. The Court's ruling also highlights the success of a decades' long effort by anti-abortion activists to transform the very politics of abortion. The New States of Abortion Politics, written by leading scholar Joshua C. Wilson, tells the story of this movement, from streets to legislative halls to courtrooms.

With the end of clinic-front activism, lawyers and politicians took on the fight. Anti-abortion activists moved away from a doomed frontal assault on Roe v. Wade and adopted an incremental strategy—putting anti-abortion causes on the offensive in friendly state forums and placing reproductive rights advocates on the defense in the courts. The Supreme Court ruling on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt in 2016 makes the stakes for abortion politics higher than ever. This book elucidates how—and why.