Dr. Carrie N. Baker specializes in women’s legal history, gender and public policy, and feminist social change.
Books
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.
New Books Network podcast discussing the book.
Selected Peer Reviewed Articles
“History and Politics of the Abortion Pill in the United States and the Rise of Telemedicine Abortion During the COVID-19,” Journal of Health Politics, Law and Policy (2023).
“Access to Medication Abortion Among Massachusetts Public University Students,” Contraception: An International Reproductive Health Journal (2021).
“Racialized Rescue Narratives in Public Discourses on Youth Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in the United States,” Politics and Gender 15 (4) (2019): 773-800.
“Obscuring Gender-Based Violence: Marriage Promotion and Teen Dating Violence Research,” with Nan Stein, Journal of Women, Politics and Policy 37:1 (2016): 87-109.
“Moving Beyond ‘Slaves, Sinners, and Saviors’: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of U.S. Sex Trafficking Discourse, Law and Policy,” Journal of Feminist Scholarship 4 (2013): 1-23.
“Race, Class, and Sexual Harassment in the 1970s.” Feminist Studies 30, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 7-27.
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.
