Betsy Hartmann papers

Betsy (Elizabeth) Hartmann is an activist, professor, and author of both fiction and nonfiction publications relating to activism on reproductive rights, women's rights, population and environmental policy, and American politics and foreign policy. Hartmann went to Yale University and graduated with a BA in South Asian Studies magna cum laude, going on to earn her PhD in development studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Throughout her career, Hartmann has conducted research and engaged in activism in various fields of study, each culminating in the release of a book. Her first nonfiction book, A Quiet Violence: View From a Bangladesh Village (1983) co-authored with James Boyce, explores the dynamics of exploitation, wealth inequality and world hunger though a village study. She is best known for her book Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control (1987, 1995, 2016). She is the co-editor of Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (2005) and the author of The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and Our Call to Greatness (2017). Additionally, she released two novels on the Far Right, The Truth About Fire (2002) and Deadly Election (2007). In 1988, Hartmann became the director of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College. She was a founding member of the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment (CWPE). She retired in 2016 from Hampshire College as professor emerita of Development Studies.