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Author: Constance Shehan

Constance Shehan is a professor of sociology and women's studies at the University of Florida whose research focuses on women’s experiences in “work”—both paid labor and unpaid labor in the home—and “family” life—written broadly to include a full range of intimate relationships and household living arrangements.
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Roe v. Wade Gave Women a Choice About Having Children—Here’s How That Changed Their Lives

Constance Shehan
Roe v. Wade Gave Women a Choice About Having Children—Here’s How That Changed Their Lives

The landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade greatly improved the lives of generations of women across the U.S. in the last decades of the 20th century and early in the 21st, giving them previously unknown levels of freedom, autonomy and control over their lives.

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