Reproductive (In)Justice
In this session, we will grapple with reproductive politics and injustices and discuss how academic scholarship has and can continue to be used to advance reproductive rights and social justice.
To help anchor our discussions, we invite participants to read and reflect on the following three pieces:
- Dána-Ain Davis, "Radical Black Birth Workers." In Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy and Premature Birth, 169-197. New York: NYU Press, 2019.
- lIana Löwy and Marilena Cordeiro Dias Villela Corrêa, "The “Abortion Pill” Misoprostol in Brazil: Women’s Empowerment in a Conservative and Repressive Political Environment," American Journal of Public Health, 110 no.5 (2020): 677-684.
- Ilana Löwy, "Fetuses: Women, Doctors and the Law," in Viruses and Reproductive Injustice: Zika in Brazil. Baltimore: JHU Press, Forthcoming 2024.*
We will be joined by Ilana Löwy (CERMES 3, Paris) who will participate in group conversations and offer commentary on her piece.
*For this session, Ilana has generously offered to share a chapter from her very exciting (and relevant) new book: Viruses and Reproductive Injustice: Zika in Brazil. Since this book is not yet published, this piece has not been uploaded to the CHSTM website. Instead, interested readers can get hold of a copy by emailing Jennifer Fraser (jennifer.fraser@kcl.ac.uk) or one of our other working group convenors directly. All other readings can be accessed via this session's downloadable ZIP file (below).