Quote of the day
Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the 'cities of the world', then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute 'the rural areas of the world'.
Rickie Solinger

Born: 1947 (age 79)
Bio: Rickie Solinger is an independent historian, curator, and lecturer whose work focuses on reproductive politics, welfare politics, politics of incarceration, race and class, and motherhood.
Known for:
- Pregnancy and power (2005)
- The abortionist (1994)






