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Blog: “Deeply rooted in history”: Teaching abortion ancient and modern in a post-Roe v. Wade world
With weary hearts, we consider with you what Classics can do in the face of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision overruling Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992). We bring you what we can from our own experience: Amy Richlin spent the 1990s teaching half in Gender Studies in the aftermath of the Reagan-Bush administration, when Planned Parenthood v. Casey was heard, and also taught Roman women’s history and sometimes Roman law during her years at USC and UCLA. Bruce Frier has been on the Faculty of the Read more … |
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For the Girls: An Elegy
In 1954, the girls went out to play “She’s always got her nose in a book,” their mothers said, Serious girls, or rowdy, they got straight A’s, Once they wore red Keds, and collected barrettes; Now it is summer again, and the trees cast Read more … |