Larry McNeill Research Fellowship in Texas Legal History

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]

The Larry McNeill Research Fellowship in Texas Legal History [of $2,500] is awarded annually [by the Texas State Historical Association] for the best research proposal on some aspect of Texas legal history.

The application, which should be no longer than two pages, should specify the purpose of the research and provide a description of the end product (article or book). The applicant’s vitae should be attached to the application. The award will be announced at the Association’s Annual Meeting in February 2020. Judges may withhold the award at their discretion.

Individuals should submit an entry form, four (4) copies of their vitae, and four (4) copies of a proposal to the TSHA office by December 28, 2019.

Larry McNeill Research Fellowship Committee
Texas State Historical Association
3001 Lake Austin Blvd., Suite 3.116
Austin, TX 78703

The Larry McNeill Research Fellowship in Texas Legal History was established in 2019 by the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society (TSCHS) in honor of Larry McNeill, a past president of TSCHS and the Texas State Historical Association. The award recognizes his commitment to fostering academic and grassroots research in Texas legal history.

Sethna, Davis and friends on travel for abortion

Out with Johns Hopkins University Press is Abortion Across Borders: Transnational Travel and Access to Abortion Services, edited by Christabelle Sethna, University of Ottawa and Gayle Davis, University of Edinburgh. Many of the chapters are historical in approach, focusing on travel for abortion since the 1960s. From the press: 

Safe, legal, and affordable abortion is widely recognized as an essential medical service for women across the world. When access to that service is denied or restricted, women are compelled to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, seek backstreet abortionists, attempt self-induced abortions, or even travel to less restrictive states, provinces, and countries to receive care.

Abortion across Borders focuses on travel across domestic and international boundaries to terminate a pregnancy. Christabelle Sethna and Gayle Davis have gathered a cadre of authors to examine how restrictive policies force women to move both within and across national borders in order to reach abortion providers, often at great expense, over long distances and with significant safety risks. Taking historical and contemporary perspectives, contributors examine the situation in regions that include Texas, Prince Edward Island, Ireland, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Eastern Europe. Throughout, they take a feminist intersectional approach to transnational travel and access to abortion services that is sensitive to inequalities of gender, race, and class in reproductive health care.

This multidisciplinary volume raises challenging logistical, legal, and ethical questions while exploring the gendered aspects of medical tourism. A noticeable rollback of reproductive rights and renewed attention to border security in many parts of the world will make Abortion across Borders of timely interest to scholars of gender and women's studies, health, medicine, law, mobility studies, and reproductive justice.

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