BETH 746 Reproductive Ethics, Law and Justice
The class will focus on reproductive health, law, and ethics. Understanding and learning about the legislative process is essential to this class. Reproductive justice issues span not only constitutional law considerations, but also other aspects of law, medicine, society, and the political process. Topics researched and discussed will include abortion, contraception, treatment of pregnant inmates, pregnancy exclusion laws, rape and statutory rape laws, personhood and feticide laws, artificial reproduction, surrogacy, the use of child endangerment laws to prosecute women for their conduct during pregnancy and parenthood.
WGH 201 Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
This interdisciplinary course will explore the politics of reproductive health and health care delivery, both in the US and globally, with a particular focus on how reproduction and related clinical care are shaped by and in turn shape social inequality along axes of race, gender, and social class. The course will intertwine three threads: 1) major conceptual and theoretical issues foundational to understanding the politics and epidemiology of reproduction; 2) contemporary and historical perspectives on specific reproductive phenomena and events (preventing pregnancy, terminating pregnancy, sustaining pregnancy, and giving birth); 3) social movements organized around reproductive health (e.g. anti-abortion, reproductive justice movements)
HIST 15U
How does our understanding of the past change when we center the politics of reproduction? This seminar invites students to approach 20th/21st century global history through the history of reproductive technology. Each week, we will follow specific technologies – including IUDs, pills, vacuum aspirators, and sperm banks – across different geographies. We will situate the development and use of these technologies in relation to racialized histories of colonialism, feminist movements, Cold War conflicts, postcolonial state-making, and contemporary right-wing nationalisms. We will ask: how have ideas about reproductive technologies mobilized and remade conceptions of race, gender, sexuality, class, caste, and ability?