My research has focused on American women’s political activism and social movements, particularly the history of the birth control movement in the 20th century. More recently, my research has expanded into the politics of reproductive rights and men’s responses to the women’s movement in the 1970s.

The Shifting Battleground for Birth Control: Lessons from New York’s Hudson Valley in the Interwar Years” New York History 90:3 (Summer 2009): 187- 215

Women’s Studies in the Academy: Origins and Impact, ed. (Prentice Hall, 2004)

Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917-1940 (Ohio State University Press, 2003)

“Federal Expansion, Fertility Control, and Physicians in the United States: The Politics of Maternal Welfare in the Interwar Years,” Journal of Women’s History 10:3 (Autumn 1998): 53-73

“Men’s Liberation in the 1970s: A Contested Label in a Contentious Decade,” at 1977-2017: The International Women’s Year National Women’s Conference in Retrospect, University of Houston, November, 2017

“From ‘Make Every Day Mothers’ Day’ to ‘Free Abortion on Demand’’: Planned Parenthood and the Challenge of Legalized Abortion in the 1970s,” at Upstate New York Women’s History Conference, Seneca Falls, NY, September 2015

“When “the rest of the world joined up”: Planned Parenthood and the Politics of Reproduction in the Heyday of Women’s Liberation,” at A Revolutionary Moment: Women’s Liberation in the Late 60s and Early 70s, Boston University, March 2014

“Planned Parenthood Historically,” for The Academic Minute and The Best of Our Knowledge, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Albany, NY (Aired, September 23, 2015 & October 22, 2015) http://academicminute.org/2015/09/robyn-rosen-marist-college-planned-parenthood-historically/