Information, Power, and Reproductive Health

Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, Renée Ann Rau, Alanna Aiko Moore

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Litwin Books, LLC
26 September 2025

Gender studies: women; Social theory; Reproductive medicine

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Information, Power, and Reproductive Health encourages readers to explore the inextricable intersection of reproductive health information and power. Rooted in a framework of reproductive justice, it explores the ways in which power plays a central role in how reproductive health information is created, controlled, withheld, and shared. Deeply entrenched ideologies about which bodies are deserving or undeserving of reproductive care, which facets of reproductive life are worthy of research, which issues are taboo or frequently dismissed, and how to control bodies considered unruly all affect what health information is easily accessible or perhaps hidden from those who need it. Legislative, bureaucratic, medical-scientific, economic, and familial systems and structures shape reproductive health information, and framing information production and consumption as a social act can help us to trace these structural and ideological forces in the reproductive health landscape and locate transgressive sites of information sharing that speak back to power. Chapters address the continued and more-urgent-than-ever interest in reproductive health, feminism(s), womanism, critical theory, and praxis in librarianship and information studies.

Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (she/her) is Associate Professor and Science Librarian at Grinnell College. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator who writes about critical information literacy in academic libraries and the gender and racial dynamics at play in information work more broadly.

Alanna Aiko Moore is the Librarian for Sociology, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Alanna holds a bachelor of arts in Sociology/Anthropology and Gender Studies from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR, and a master's of Library and Information Science from Dominican University. Alanna has published book chapters and articles on queer parenting, cross cultural mentoring, emotional labor, activism, and issues affecting women of color librarians.

Renée A. Rau is an Information Services Librarian at University of Southern California's Norris Medical Library and the liaison to the Keck School of Medicine. She earned a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree at San José State University (SJSU), in 2020. In 2017, she earned an MA in 20th-century United States history, specializing in women's and gender history, from Washington State University (WSU).

Edited by: Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, Renée Ann Rau, Alanna Aiko Moore
Imprint: Litwin Books, LLC
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 526g
ISBN: 9781634001526
ISBN 10: 1634001524
Pages: 396
Publication Date: 26 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active