J. Shoshanna Ehrlich

J. Shoshanna Ehrlich is a professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her interdisciplinary scholarship addresses the legal regulation of sexuality and reproduction, with a particular focus on the rights of young women. She also teaches and writes in the area of family law, and is particularly interested in the role that gender plays in shaping normative understandings of family relationships.

Prof. Ehrlich’s books include: Who Decides? The Abortion Rights of Teens (Praeger, 2006) and Family Law for Paralegals (Aspen Law and Business), which is now in its sixth edition.

Prof. Ehrlich is also the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles including: “From Birth Control to Sex Control: Unruly Young Women and the Origins of the National Abstinence-Only Mandate,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History (2013); “You Can Steal Her Virginity But Not Her Doll: The Nineteenth Century Campaign to Raise the Legal Age of Sexual Consent, Cardozo Journal of Gender & Law (2009); “and “Grounded in the Reality of Their Lives: Listening to Teens Who Make the Abortion Decision without Involving Their Parents,” Berkeley Women’s Law Journal (2003).

She also consults with a variety of organizations that are committed to protecting the reproductive rights of women and teens.