Katherine J. Parkin

Katherine Parkin is Professor of History at Monmouth University. Her first book, Food is Love: Food Advertising & Gender Roles in Modern America, was awarded the Emily Toth Award for best book in feminist popular culture in 2006. Her second book, Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, & Fixing Cars, also received the Emily Toth Award in 2018. Her newest book, The Abortion Market: Buying & Selling Access in the Era Before Roe, considers the role of population control, advertising and marketing, college campuses, and travel for the one million women seeking abortions.

To read more articles about abortion history, check out:

* "The Women's National Abortion Action Coalition & the Abortion Tribunals, 1971–1972"

*"The Business of Abortion: Referral Services, Cross-Border Consumption, and Canadian Women’s Access to Abortion in New York State, 1970–1972" (best scholarly article in Canadian Business History)

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