Review: Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement, by Jennifer L. Holland

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Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement, by Jennifer L. Holland Jennifer L. Holland. Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. 324 pp. Illustrations. Paperback $29.95. Felicia Kornbluh Felicia Kornbluh FELICIA KORNBLUH is professor of history and of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Vermont. She is the author of A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice (2023); and The Battle for Welfare Rights: Poverty and Policy in Modern America (2007); and coauthor, with Gwendolyn Mink, of Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective (2018). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2023) 100 (2): 112–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.112 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Felicia Kornbluh; Review: Tiny You: A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement, by Jennifer L. Holland. California History 1 May 2023; 100 (2): 112–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.2.112 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search In Tiny You, an account of the internal logic and symbolic politics of what she terms alternately the “anti-abortion” or “pro-life” movement, historian Jennifer Holland has produced one of the most important studies of that movement ever to appear in print. Holland’s work takes as its foci the “quad states” of the Mountain West, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and the impact of pro-life activists on diverse institutions and publics. While the work does not address itself to grassroots, legislative, or court-based legal action in California, it should be of interest to anyone who cares about U.S. politics over the past half-century. This book should also be read by everyone who is interested in the ways in which militant minorities can transform people’s daily lives, even their personal identities, and how this can, in turn, change statutory and judge-made law. It should also be read by people who... You do not currently have access to this content.