Books published by Vanderbilt University Press

Provides a comprehensive and reasoned examination of almost the entire topic of abortion, from the medical to the religious and ethical and from the psychological to the legal, in plain language understandable by non-specialists. The first part of this book reviews why women have abortions, as well as the magnitude and consequences.

Traces the ways in which Spain went from being central to European history and identity during the early modern period to being marginalized and displaced by England, France, and Germany during the Romantic period. This book points out that it has been an assumption tainting literary criticism that Spain did not have a strong Romantic movement.