Professor of history at Marist College, Robyn Rosen stopped by WAMC’s studios on Central Ave. in Albany today.
Dr. Rosen was on hand to record her upcoming Academic Minute segment giving historical context to the controversies and perceptions affixed to Planned Parenthood.
Robyn Rosen, professor of history and women’s studies at Marist College since 1994, teaches classes in modern U.S. and women’s history. She is the author of the book, Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the 
Politics of Maternal Reform, 1917-1940 (Ohio State University Press, 2003) and the editor of Women’s Studies in the Academy: Origins and Impact (Prentice Hall, 2004). Her published work has appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, Gender & History, and the New York History.
Her current project seeks to explore the impact of the legalization of abortion and second wave feminism on the family planning movement, and to place controversies over abortion in the broader context of cultural and political change in the 1970s.
Look for her segment to run in late September.
