Study of Women and Gender 271 - REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of reproductive rights, restrictions and resistance in the United States, examining history, activism, public policy, science and discourses related to reproduction. A central framework for analysis is how gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability and nationality intersect to shape women’s experiences of reproductive oppression and their resistance strategies. Topics include eugenics and the birth control movement in the United States; the reproductive rights and justice movements; U.S. population control policies; criminalization of pregnant women; fetal personhood and women’s citizenship; the medicalization of women’s bodies; reproductive technologies; the influence of disability, incarceration and poverty on women’s ability to control their reproduction; the anti-abortion movement and reproductive coercion.