“Tiny You is a game changer.”
— Michelle Nickerson, author of Mothers of Conservatism
Winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize
Denver Public Library, 2021
Winner of the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize
Western History Association, 2021
Winner of the David J. Weber Prize
Western History Association, 2021
Winner of the Armitage-Jameson Prize
Coalition for Western Women’s History, 2021
Tiny You tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century:
the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion.
Looking at anti-abortion movements in four western states since the 1960s — turning to the fetal pins passed around church services, the graphic images exchanged between friends, and the fetus dolls given to children in school — Holland argues that activists made fetal life feel personal to many Americans. Pro-life activists persuaded people to see themselves in the pins, images, and dolls they held in their hands and made the fight against abortion the primary bread-and-butter issue for social conservatives.
“This is an important book.”
Karissa Haugeberg, author of Women Against Abortion
“A timely and necessary history of the anti-abortion movement”
Brianna Theobald, author of Reproduction on the Reservation
This “well-research and captivating history” . . . “offers a provocative look at the long shadow cast by civil rights law on so many of our debates, exploring how conservative social movements have laid claim to those traditions in profoundly consequential ways.”
Mary Ziegler, author of Before Roe
“Though they claimed to be leading a pro-civil rights campaign, Holland emphasizes consistent anti-feminist arguments and brings forward the implicit racist assumptions of the overwhelmingly white movement.”
Kathy Olmstead, author of Right Out of California