Betsy Hartmann

Betsy Hartmann writes nonfiction and fiction about important national and global challenges. Now in its third edition, her feminist classic Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control tackles the powerful myth of overpopulation and its negative consequences for women’s reproductive health and rights. She is also the co-author of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village and co-editor of the anthology Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties. Her political thrillers The Truth About Fire and Deadly Election explore the threat the Far Right poses to American democracy. Betsy is professor emerita of Development Studies and senior policy analyst of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College.