In Tiny You, an account of the internal logic and symbolic politics of what she terms alternately the “anti-abortion” or “pro-life” movement, historian Jennifer Holland has produced one of the most important studies of that movement ever to appear in print. Holland’s work takes as its foci the “quad states” of the Mountain West, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and the impact of pro-life activists on diverse institutions and publics. While the work does not address itself to grassroots, legislative, or court-based legal action in California, it should be of interest to anyone who cares about U.S. politics over the past half-century. This book should also be read by everyone who is interested in the ways in which militant minorities can transform people’s daily lives, even their personal identities, and how this can, in turn, change statutory and judge-made law. It should also be read by people who...

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