Articles by Clare Daniel

October 8, 2025

🌈 Abortion rights and the cost of compromise

Clare Daniel

Abortion rights advocates in hostile environments face difficult choices. Clare Daniel, Anna Mitchell Mahoney and Grace Riley’s research in Louisiana shows how traditional advocacy approaches fail to sway legislators, while attempts to communicate across differences risk long-term consequences. Gender scholarship must contend with the dilemma of sacrificing broader goals for smaller, immediate impacts in increasingly constrained political landscapes

Clare Daniel

Senior Professor of Practice and Director of Research, Newcomb Institute of Tulane University 

Clare is Senior Professor of Practice and Director of Research at Tulane University’s Newcomb Institute and affiliated faculty in the Gender and Sexuality Studies program.

She received her PhD in American Studies from the University of New Mexico.

Clare's book, Mediating Morality: The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era, charts a shift in the political and popular discourse about adolescent pregnancy in the wake of the 1996 US welfare reform policy.

Her work on reproductive politics has also appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, American Journal of Public Health, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Women’s Health Issues, Feminist Media Studies, and elsewhere.

Clare's opinion pieces have been published in The Advocate, The Hill, and Ms., among others.

Mediating Morality: The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era, University of Massachusetts Press, 2017

Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online, Athabasca University Press, 2025

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