Dr. Sara Matthiesen

Dr. Sara Matthiesen
Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and History
Full-time
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Sara Matthiesen (she/her/hers) is an assistant professor of history and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at George Washington University. Professor Matthiesen's new book, Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice after Roe v. Wade (University of California Press, 2021), traces how incarceration, disease, poverty, for-profit medical care and state neglect forced those living in the United States to work much harder to have and maintain family in the decades following the decriminalization of abortion in the U.S. She is currently at work on a second project that traces the persistence of self-managed and home abortion practices after Roe. Her academic work has been published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Review, and Women’s Review of Books, and she has written for popular audiences in The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, and Jacobin.
Gender, sexuality, race, and reproduction in 20th century U.S. History
Feminist theory
U.S. social movements
Critical legal studies and legal history
Matthiesen is currently completing a book on reproductive politics in the U.S. following the legalization of abortion. Reproduction Reconceived (forthcoming from UC Press) examines debates over women's right to engage in family-making during an era of newfound reproductive choice.
"Fundamentals of Feminist Theory"
"Approaches to Women's and Gender History"
"U.S. Women's History II"
She, Her, Hers