Participant Info

First Name
Prudence
Last Name
Flowers
Affiliation
Flinders University
Website URL
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/prudence.flowers
Keywords
Abortion, family planning, reproductive rights, modern US, social movements, religion, women's history, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, US conservatism
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Personal Info

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Recent Publications

Book

Prudence Flowers, The Right-to-Life Movement, the Reagan Administration, and the Politics of Abortion (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).

Articles

Prudence Flowers, “The purists and the pragmatists: The right-to-life movement and the problem of the exceptional abortion in the United States, 1980s-2010s,” Women’s Studies International Forum 78 (7) (2020).

Prudence Flowers, “‘Voodoo biology’: The right-to-life campaign against family planning programs in the United States in the 1980s,” Women’s History Review 29 (2) (2020).

Prudence Flowers, “Fighting the ‘hurricane winds’ of abortion liberalization: Americans United for Life and the struggle for self-definition before Roe v. Wade,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture 11 (2) (2018).

Prudence Flowers, “‘A pro-life disaster’: The Reagan administration and the nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor,” Journal of Contemporary History 53 (2) (2017).

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Women