Deep Care (AK Press, 2023) follows generations of activists and health workers who orbited the Women’s Choice Clinic in Oakland from the early 1970s until 2010. Grounding her study in interviews with activists sharing details of their work for the first time, Angela Hume (College Writing Programs, UC Berkeley) reveals this critical, under-recognized story of the radical edge of the abortion movement.

Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure that can end a pregnancy, using equipment easily bought and assembled at home.

Hume is joined by Patrice Douglass (Gender and Women's Studies, UC Berkeley).