Karen Weingarten is director of Women and Gender Studies and professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Her most recent books include Pregnancy Test (Bloomsbury, 2023) and the edited collection Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe v. Wade (Penguin Classics, 2025). She is working on a collective biography of the first activists who called for the repeal of all abortion laws.
Karen Weingarten
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Writing on Public Books
After “Abortion”: A 1966 Book and the World That It Made
Before the book’s publication, no one, it seemed, wanted to talk about abortion publicly. But something changed with when the book finally arrived in 1966.
