Sara Matthiesen

Sara Matthiesen is Associate Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at George Washington University. Her first book, Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade (University of California Press, 2021), traces how mass incarceration, for-profit and racist health care, HIV/AIDS, parentage laws, and faith-based services extracted new forms of reproductive labor from families on the economic, racial, and sexual margins of society at the end of the twentieth century. It received the 2022 Sara A. Whaley Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association. Her current project, “‘Free Abortion on Demand!’ After Roe,” is a history of multiracial, feminist organizing against state and medical control of abortion during the era of choice.