Sara Matthiesen is an assistant professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at George Washington University. Her forthcoming book, Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade, explores her primary research interests–reproduction, labor, and the modern U.S. state–to explain how incarceration, disease, poverty, for-profit medical care and state neglect has forced those living in the United States to work much harder to have and maintain family. Her academic work has been published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Review, and Women’s Review of Books, and she has written for popular audiences in The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, and Jacobin.
