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Women's bodies have always been sites of struggle--over meanings and forcontrol.  The most polarizing conflicts involve women's reproductiveautonomy.  Around the world women continue to fight for or to retain hardwon abortion rights.  Women's experiences with abortion are contested byand between the medical establishment, the state, churches, the media, andactivists.  Further complicating these conflicts are issues of race, class,gender, and heteronormativity.  This collection seeks to publish works onthe history and politics of abortion worldwide.  We invite theoretical,country-specific, and transnational comparative pieces.Topics may include, but are not limited to:-Shifting (historical/political) meanings of abortion-The place of women in abortion politics/history-Historical constructions of the fetus-'Pro-choice' and 'pro-life' activism-Reproductive justice movement-The role of the state in abortion politics- The role of the medical profession in abortion politics-The influence of medical advancements on abortion politics/history-Abortion and sexualityPlease submit abstracts of no more than 300 words and a one-page CV toTracy Penny Light at abortionpolitics@gmail.com. Article abstracts dueNovember 30, 2012.Tracy Penny Light is Director of Women's Studies at the University ofWaterloo and Associate Professor in the Sexuality, Marriage, and FamilyStudies and History departments at St. Jerome's University (University ofWaterloo).  Her research explores the medical discourse on gender andsexuality in Canada and the United States in the twentieth century.  Herforthcoming book, _Shifting Interests: The Medical Discourse on Abortionin English Canada, 1850-1969_ (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) explores theways that the medical profession has understood abortion practices in thepast.  She has published articles on masculinity and the feminine ideal inCanada and the United States as well as on developing historical thinkingin students.  She is also co-editing two forthcoming books: _BodilySubjects: Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000_ (with Wendy Mitchinsonand Barbara Brookes) and a book on feminist pedagogy in higher education(with Jane Nicholas and Renee Bondy).Shannon Stettner recently defended her dissertation, *Women and Abortion inEnglish Canada: Public Debates and Political Participation, 1959-1970*, atYork University and is under contract to revise the manuscript forpublication* *(Wilfrid Laurier University Press). The book explores women?scontributions to the abortion law reform debate of the decade.  She haspublished in the *Canadian Bulletin of Medical History* and is currentlyediting a volume of abortion narratives and think pieces entitled *Voiceson Choice(s): Reflections on Abortion in Canada*.Tracy Penny LightUniversity of Waterloosource: H-Asia