Rickie Solinger

Rickie Solinger is a historian who writes about reproductive politics and the role of race and class in determining who gets to be a legitimate mother in the U.S., who does not, and how these definitions have changed over time. Solinger has written and edited eleven books, including The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law (1994, 2019) about Ruth Barnett, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade (1992, 2000), and Reproductive Justice: An Introduction, with Loretta Ross (2017).  She is also a curator of art exhibitions on allied topics that have traveled to more than 150 college and university art galleries.