Dr. Joffe's most recent book is Reproduction and Society: Interdisciplinary Readings, co-edited with Jennifer Reich. She is the author of four additional books:
Friendly Intruders: Childcare Professionals and Family Life
The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers
Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade
Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us
She also is the author of numerous articles on various aspects of reproductive health services and politics. Besides writing for an academic audience, Joffe has throughout her career written for the general public, publishing op-eds and letters in leading newspapers (Los Angeles Times. Washington Post, New York Times, etc) and websites, such as RHRealitycheck.org, Huffington Post, Salon, Slate and others.
Areas of interest:
Sociology of reproductive health and reproductive politics
Sociological aspects of abortion provision
Gender and public policy
Awards and honors:
David Gunn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Abortion Care Network, 2015
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Family Planning, 2013
Irwin Kushner Lecturer by the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, 2010
Public Service Award granted by the faculty senate at UC Davis, 2006
Education:
University of California, Berkeley, Doctorate in Sociology
