Mandy Van Deven's blog

Mandy Van Deven interviews Irene Vilar about her book, Impossible Motherhood, and her self-described history as an "abortion addict."

In Cheating on the Sisterhood: Infidelity and Feminism, Lauren Rosewarne’s details her own personal struggles as a willing participant in an illicit relationship that resulted in another woman's devastation, as well as her own. It is a political look at the motivations that fuel situations of betrayal and the justifications one provides oneself from the inside.

Laura Scott's newly published Two is Enough: A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice is a qualitative look at what motivates couples to decide that their two-person families are already just the right size.

Rebecca Kluchin's new book, Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980, explores a thirty year period of US history in which eugenic and neo-eugenic ideas were used to justify forced, coerced, and freely chosen sterilization.

"Body Shopping" author Donna Dickenson draws a connection between "beauty junkies" and bone thieves, and asks the reader to consider the consequences of transforming the human body into a sellable object.

Lila Rose's Live Action Films uses police quality undercover equipment to record a loosely scripted conversation in which Rose and her cohorts bait Planned Parenthood employees into violating the organization's policies. Welcome to twenty-first century stealth pro-life activism.

In her new book "The Means of Reproduction," Michelle Goldberg puts forth a convincing argument that women's liberation worldwide is key to solving some of our most daunting problems.