Hello. This is Jane.

Judith Arcana has taught and written about motherhood and reproductive justice for decades. The prose and poetry of "Our Mothers' Daughters," "Every Mother's Son," and "What if your mother" are feminist classics. The stories in this new collection, rooted in her experience as a Jane in Chicago's pre-Roe v. Wade underground abortion service, were written as the United States has moved relentlessly into constraining motherhood and denying reproductive justice. By necessity, these stories reach from the past into the future, offering history and hope.According to Cindy Cooper, Founding Director of Words of Choice and The Reproductive Freedom Festival, "Judith Arcana's remarkable feat in "Hello. This is Jane." is to paint, tile by tile, a complex mosaic of compelling linked stories- children's playgrounds and adult tattoo parlors, ill-advised lovers and underground abortion activists. In the mainstream and on the edges, you'll feel the urgency of the struggle for reproductive justice as you turn these pages."… (more)