Mandy Van Deven is a writer, speaker, and changemaker. Her work exploring contemporary feminisms, global activism, and sexuality has been published by Salon, AlterNet, and Marie Claire. She is the Online Administrator for International Planned Parenthood Federation / Western Hemisphere Region.
In poor countries, cervical cancer is often the most common cancer-related death among women, or even the leading cause of death for women, period.
PROFAMILIA in the Dominican Republic successfully links HIV testing and treatment and SRH services and becomes a model for the region.
Improving access to sexual and reproductive health services is necessary to advance the Millennium Development Goals. At this critical moment, however, funding priorities for family planning are being shifted away from Latin America and the Caribbean, which may undermine the substantial gains that have been made in the region and overlook the tremendous need that still remains.
Mandy Van Deven interviews Irene Vilar about her book, Impossible Motherhood, and her self-described history as an "abortion addict."
In Cheating on the Sisterhood: Infidelity and Feminism, Lauren Rosewarne’s details her own personal struggles as a willing participant in an illicit relationship that resulted in another woman’s devastation, as well as her own. It is a political look at the motivations that fuel situations of betrayal and the justifications one provides oneself from the inside.
Laura Scott’s newly published Two is Enough: A Couple’s Guide to Living Childless by Choice is a qualitative look at what motivates couples to decide that their two-person families are already just the right size.
Rebecca Kluchin’s new book, Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980, explores a thirty year period of US history in which eugenic and neo-eugenic ideas were used to justify forced, coerced, and freely chosen sterilization.
“Body Shopping” author Donna Dickenson draws a connection between “beauty junkies” and bone thieves, and asks the reader to consider the consequences of transforming the human body into a sellable object.
Lila Rose’s Live Action Films uses police quality undercover equipment to record a loosely scripted conversation in which Rose and her cohorts bait Planned Parenthood employees into violating the organization’s policies. Welcome to twenty-first century stealth pro-life activism.
In her new book “The Means of Reproduction,” Michelle Goldberg puts forth a convincing argument that women’s liberation worldwide is key to solving some of our most daunting problems.
