Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 793R - S- Politics of Reproduction

Fall
2021
01
3.00
Laura Briggs

TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM

UMass Amherst
22801
South College Room W205
ljbriggs@wost.umass.edu
21887
From the Black Panther Party and Young Lords in the 1970s to SisterSong and Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice in the 1990s to Ferguson and Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement in the present, communities of color and socialist feminists have fought for a comprehensive reproductive freedom platform--birth control and abortion to be sure, but also the right to raise wanted children that are safe, cherished, and educated. The names of these issues have included freedom from sterilization, high quality affordable day care, IVF, immigrant justice, social reproduction and wages for housework, welfare and neoliberalism, foreclosure and affordable housing.

While this course will be co-convened with the undergraduate class twice a week, there will also be a stand-alone meeting with graduate students (time TBD) that will engage the emerging?indeed, exploding?scholarly body of work on reproductive politics.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.