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I have never seen so many copies of #godblessthepill all in one place!
I got to have a great conversation with Miranda Melcher of the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about #godblessthepill! Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/god-bless-th... @hkyria.bsky.social @sonyabonczek.bsky.social @catehodorowicz.bsky.social
My contribution to Mother's Day:
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The Immanent Frame gave me the opportunity to reflect on aspects of God Bless the Pill that felt politically hard as I was writing.
The Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine offered this lovely right up of God Bless the Pill.
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Publisher’s Weekly did an interview with me about God Bless the Pill! @uncpress.bsky.social @hkyria.bsky.social @catehodorowicz.bsky.social
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From my forever editor and champion!!!
Samira K. Mehta
NEW | In her essay, @samirakmehta.bsky.social (@colorado.edu) contemplates the "conservative impulses" behind birth control. She writes, "Women...achieved our collective liberation by appropriating ... a tool that they had intended for the perfection of the family."
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I decided to write my third book, God Bless the Pill, about the mid-twentieth-century history of birth control in 2011. […]
In new book God Bless the Pill, CU Boulder scholar Samira Mehta delves into the often-forgotten history of how liberal religion helped make birth control
Did you know that the inventor of the birth control pill was Catholic?
I didn't until I read @samirakmehta.bsky.social's fascinating new book GOD BLESS THE PILL, out this month.
Check out this excerpt in @literaryhub.bsky.social ⤵️
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In God Bless the Pill (UNC Press, Apr.), the religion scholar was surprised to find many Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant clergy once actively promoted contraception as an instrument of family stabili...
Three women just made history by taking a key Orthodox Rabbinate exam in Israel — a sign of growing opportunities and recognition for women in religious leadership.
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Read @samirakmehta.bsky.social’s brand new GOD BLESS THE PILL & discover a “Not-So Feminist History” rich in the connections among American sexualities, religions, & the state. Always a pleasure to have worked with this dynamic thinker. @uncpress.bsky.social tif.ssrc.org/2026/03/26/d...
It's pub day for GOD BLESS THE PILL: he Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion by @samirakmehta.bsky.social 🎉 🙌
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Amidst the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the first oral contraceptive in 1960, an ongoing—if surprising—conversation emerged within the Catholic Church about the morality of birth cont…
Three women sat for an exam administered by Israel’s Rabbinate, the latest sign of growing recognition for women’s religious leadership within Orthodox Judaism.
