Gender, Sexuality, and Health (332-0-21)
Topic
Reproductive Health/Justice/Politics
Instructors
Amy Partridge
847.491.5872
Meeting Info
University Hall 218: Mon, Wed 2:00PM - 3:20PM
Overview of class
As feminist scholar Michelle Murphy points out, "reproduction is not self-evidently a capacity located in sexed bodies"; it is instead a site (or formation) that joins, "cells, protocols, bodies, nations, capital, economics, freedom, and affect as much as sex and women into its sprawl." Thus, she reminds us, "how we constitute reproduction shapes how it can be imagined, altered and politicized." In this seminar we will explore the changing contours of "reproductive politics" from the 1960s to the present (or from the period immediately pre-Roe v Wade through the recent 2022 decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization) through an in-depth investigation of a range of projects and organizations that conceptually reimagine what we mean by "reproduction," the scope and content of "reproductive politics," and the kinds of demands that can be made in the name of reproductive health, rights, freedom and justice.
Class Materials (Required)
- Jennifer Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement. New York University Press, 2003. [available online via NUCAT]
- Adele Clarke & Donna Haraway eds., Making Kin Not Population. Prickly Paradigm Press/University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Class Attributes
Social and Behavioral Science Foundational Discipl
Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area