Dr. Carrie N. Baker specializes in women’s legal history, gender and public policy, and feminist social change.

Books

FORTHCOMING: History and Politics of Abortion Pills in the United States (Amherst College Press, 2024).

Winner of the 2008 National Women’s Studies Association Sara Whaley Book Prize.

Winner of the 2008 National Women’s Studies Association Sara Whaley Book Prize.

New Books Network podcast discussing the book.

New Books Network podcast discussing the book.

For the textbook website, click here. For the textbook Facebook page, click here. For a video introduction, click here.

For the textbook website, click here.

For the textbook Facebook page, click here.

For a video introduction, click here.

Available open access here!

Find my chapter, “Public Feminism Through Law and Policy Advocacy on Reproductive Rights” here.

Selected Journal Articles

More scholarly articles are available open access through Smith ScholarWorks.

 

Panels

 

Ruth Bader Ginsberg & the Future of Feminist Jurisprudence. Sponsored by UMass.

Strictly Speaking: Equal Rights Should Have No Deadline. Presented by the Women’s Equality Coalition of Greater Kansas City.

 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: The Future of Roe and Supreme Court Legitimacy (panel discussion), UMass Center for Justice, Law and Societies, December 8, 2021.

Reckoning with Racial Disparities in Access to the Vote: Centennial of Women's Suffrage Celebration--2020 Tolchin Symposium,” Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, August 26, 2020.

 

Feminist legal theory.

As a visiting scholar at the Feminism and Legal Theory Project of Emory University School of Law in 2017, Professor Baker speaks about the influence of feminist legal theory on her scholarship.

Preserving Our Legacy: 'An Important Piece of Feminist History Is at Risk of Being Lost', Ms., July 26, 2022.