Carole Joffe

Carole Joffe, Ph.D., is a professor in the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (Ansirh) program in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Professor Joffe is an expert on abortion provision, history of abortion and contraception, contemporary abortion rights and the anti-abortion movements.

She has written widely on reproductive health services and politics for both academic and general audiences. Her most recent book, co-authored with David Cohen, is Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America. Among her other books are Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings (co-authored with Jennifer Reich, 2015); Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade(1996); Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us (2010); and The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (1986).

Professor Joffe has won lifetime achievement awards from the National Abortion Federation, the Society of Family Planning, and the Abortion Care Network. Professor Joffe is also professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Davis, where she also taught in the Women and Gender Studies program.

Follow Professor Joffe on Twitter @carolejoffe.

Sub-specialties:
Sociology of reproductive health and reproductive politics
Sociological aspects of abortion provision
Gender and public policy