Some months back, a publisher contacted me about reprinting my Roe v. Wade essay. I just got a copy of the book in the mail, and I'm so pleased.
The piece is being used in a series called "Issues On Trial"; this edition is on Reproductive Rights. I believe they're mainly used in public and school libraries.
The main headings are: Upholding Involutary Sterilization Laws - Buck v. Bell (1927); Legalizing Contraception - Griswold v. Connecticut (1965); Legalizing Abortion - Roe v. Wade (1973); Disputing the Fate of Frozen Embryos - A.Z. v. B.Z. (2000). For each, there's an overview of the Supreme Court case and decision, then between four and seven opinion pieces.
It's just a wee bit strange to see my name in the brief table of contents, alongside Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harry Blackmun and Stephen Jay Gould! I have no idea why the editor chose my piece, but it was a nice bit of luck. Something every writer can use once a decade or so.
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It's just a wee bit strange to see my name in the brief table of contents, alongside Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harry Blackmun and Stephen Jay Gould!
August company indeed! Congrats.
That's fabulous! If I ever go back to teaching the gender course I'll have to keep it in mind!
One of my "moments" was when the (so-called) Independent Women's Forum referred to me as a "feminista thumbsucker." I figure I've "made it" when the right wingers call me names! -)
http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/default.asp?archiveID=475
Congratulations!
Congrats!
Congrats Laura!
"feminista thumbsucker."
You got to love their creativity...
Congratulations.
I was called a feminazi once by a man who just couldn't understand why I wouldn't "put on a dress" and go to his church.
He didn't say it to me - he said it to my grandson. I reported him to his Bishop but in a way it was a compliment.
Thanks all. :)
I figure I've "made it" when the right wingers call me names!
I know! That's why I enjoyed the stupid attacks I used to get from wingnuts on this blog. After I while I tired of it and just found it irritating. But if our lives and ideas make the close-minded bigots angry, we're on the right track.
What, my snarky faux-comments don't count?
Now I'm offended! You buncha commenazis!
Your faux snarks are in a class by themselves. You've crippled the wingnut movement in ways you probably don't even realize. (Am I close?)
You buncha commenazis!
Commenazis! Oo, good one. :-D
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harry Blackmun, and Laura?
Wow, those are some big names there. Now I want to come to your party more than ever so at least I get to pee perhaps not next to you, but with you under the same roof. You will let me use your bathroom, right?
And OMG! In a lakeside neighborhood :^D
You will let me use your bathroom, right?
I'll consider it.
And OMG! In a lakeside neighborhood :^D
:D You goof.
Congrats!
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