Shannon Stettner
Research Interests
- women's health activism
- history of abortion
- reproductive health
- oral history
Other Scholars in University of Waterloo
Biography
Shannon Stettner teaches in the Women’s Studies department at the University of Waterloo. She recently co-edited a special issue on reproductive health history in Canada for the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. She is one of the founding co-ordinators of the Abortion: The Unfinished Revolution conference, first held in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island in 2014. Her research focuses on reproductive health, especially the history of abortion in Canada, women’s health activism, oral history, and the media and women’s rights. Shannon tweets from @slstettner
Recent Citations for Shannon Stettner
- Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada
- “‘In the image and likeness of God’: Abortion Law Reform and Religion in Letters to the Editors of Canadian Newspapers in the Sixties
- “We Are Forced to Declare War”: Linkages between the 1970 Abortion Caravan and Women’s Anti-Vietnam War Activism
- “He is still unwanted”: Women’s Assertions of Authority over Abortion in Letters to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada
- Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler
- Transcending Borders: Abortion in the Past and Present
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