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We're excited to share our new library, featuring a diverse selection of resources designed to support and educate our nonprofit community. Our carefully curated collection includes books in the following categories:

  • Pro-Life Feminism

  • Consistent Life Ethic

  • Early American Movements

  • Political

  • Spiritual

  • & More!

The library is located at FCLNY headquarters: 1545 East Avenue, Rochester NY 14610. 

 

To reserve a book, simply email us at info@fclny.org and we will arrange a date/time for pick-up.



Please note, books should be returned within 12 weeks. If a book is not returned by the specified date, FCLNY kindly requests that it be purchased at its current value Additionally, books cannot be mailed for reservation.

 

Happy reading!

Essential Pro-Life Feminist Literature

​Essential Pro-Life Feminist Books

Pity for Evil:

Suffrage, Abortion, and Women’s Empowerment in Reconstruction America

by Madeleine McDowell and Monica Klem

Encounter Books/Nov 2023

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Peace Begis in the Womb: Reflections from a Pro-Life Feminist

by Marilyn Kopp

AuthorHouse/May 2023

 

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution:

A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century, 

by Louise Perry

Polity/May 2022

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Rehumanize: A Vision to Secure Human Rights for All

by Amiee Murphy

New City Press/2022

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Wholistic Feminism:

Healing the Identity Crisis Caused by the Women's Movement

By Leah A. Jacobson

Lumen Press/June 2021

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The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision

By Erika Bachiochi

University of Notre Dame Press/July 2021

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The Family Roe

By Joshua Prager

W. W. Norton & Company/September 2021

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Broken Bonds: Surrogate Mothers Speak out

By Jennifer Lahl

Spinifex Press/April 2019

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Resisting Throwaway Culture

By Charles C. Camosy

New City Press/May 2019

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Consistent Life:

The Young Advocates Guide to Living Peace and Justice Daily

By Mary Grace Coltharp and Aimee Murphy

Independently Published/September 2018

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The Abolition of Woman

Fiorella Nash

Ignatius Press/July 2018

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Segregation’s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia

By Gregory Michael Dorr

University of Virginia Press/March 2018

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Women Against Abortion

By Karissa Haugeberg

University of Illinois Press/May 2017

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At Play in the Lion's Den: A Biography of Daniel Berrigan

by Jim Forest

Orbis Books/2017

 

Nothing is Impossible

By Scott Schaeffer Duffy

Haleys/February 2016

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Defenders of the Unborn:

The Pro-life Movement before Roe V Wade

By Daniel K. Williams

Oxford Press/ January 2016

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Peace Psychology Perspectives on Abortion

By Rachel MacNair, Ph.D.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform/May 2016

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Not Equal: Civil Rights Gone Wrong

by Ryan Bomberger

Bara Publishing/2016

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Beyond the Abortion Wars

By Charles C.Camosy

Eerdmans Publishing Co./March 2015​

 

Subverted

By Sue Ellen Browder

Ignatius Press/2015

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Jim Wallis on How to Win the War on Poverty

Elise Daniels

Article/January 2014

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Active Non-Violence: The Way of Personal Peace

By Gerard A Vanderhaar

Wipf and Stock/September 2013

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Unplanned

By Abby Johnson

Ignatius Press/January 2011

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Non-Violence in Theory and Practice

By Barry L. Gann and Robert L. Holmes

Waveland Pr. Inc,/ December 2011

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The Psychology of Peace

By Rachel MacNair, Ph.D

Praeger/November 2011

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Achieving Peace in the Abortion War

By Rachel MacNair, Ph.D (Feminism and Nonviolent Studies Association)

iUniverse/December 2008

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Consistently Opposing Killing:

From Abortion to Assisted Suicide, the Death Penalty, and War

Edited by Rachel MacNair and Stephen Zunes

Praeger/April 2008​

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Working for Peace: a Handbook on Practical Psychology

By Rachel MacNair, Ph.D

Impact/ July 2006

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The Party of Death:

The Democrats, the Media, the Courts,

and the Disregard for Human Life

Ramesh Ponnuru

Regnery Publishing/April 2006

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Mairead Corrigan And Betty Williams:

Partners for Peace in Northern Ireland

By George Mitchell and Susan Muaddi Darraj

Chelsea House Publications/October 2006

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Building Bridges:

The Pro-life Movement and the Peace Movement

By Steve Levicoff

Toviah Press/January 2001

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American Proverbs about Women

By Lois Kerschen

Greenwood/June 1998

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Swimming Against the Tide

By Angela Kennedy

Four Courts Press/June 1997

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Pro-life Feminism: Yesterday and Today

By Rachel MacNair, Mary Krane Derr, Linda Naranjo Huebl

Sulzburger and Graham Publishing Ltd,/ November 1995

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Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

Erik Erikson

W.W. Norton and Co./April 1993​

 

Dead Man Walking:

An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States

By Helen Prejean, SSJ

Random House/1993​

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Essential Pro-Life Feminist Articles

coming soon!

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Essential Pro-Life Feminist Classics

Dear Sister Feminist...

Letter between Evelyn Judge & Mary Krane Derr, 1089

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Parting the Waters

Taylor Branch

Simon and Schuster/ 1989

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Swords into Plowshares

By Art Laffin and Anne Montgomery

Harper and Row/1987

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Seeds of Peace: A Catalogue of Quotations

By Jeanne Larson and Madge Micheels-Cyrus

New Society Publishers/October 1986

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Rachel Weeping: the Case against Abortion

By James Burtchael

HarperCollins/April 1984

 

Handbook for Conscientious Objectors

By Robert Seeley

Central Committee for Conscientious Objection/1981

 

The Non-Violent Alternative

By Thomas Merton

Farrarr, Straus, Giroux/June 1981

 

Abortion and Social Justice

Edited by Thomas W. Hilgers and Dennis J. Horan

Sheed and Ward/1972

 

Gandhi and Non-Violence

By Thomas Merton

New Directions/May 1965

 

All Men are Brothers

By Mahatma Gandhi

Jitendra T. Desai Navajivan Mudranalaya, Ahemadabad-380014 India/ 1960​

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