GWS 112
Reproductive Justice
This course will situate the politics of restricting abortion rights in the US within larger issues of politics, economy, society, and culture. The syllabus is constructed to interrogate how and why reproduction became a politicized issue. What the Reproductive Justice Movement is and how it is connected with a range of other social movements. How the history of slavery, settler colonialism, racism, eugenics, and pronatalism have influenced the fights over control of fertility in the US and what people are doing in other parts of the world to claim and protect reproductive autonomy.
Topics
- Think through the ethical implications of a range of reproduction policies and practices; Become familiar with the basic outlines of political and social struggles around reproduction in the US over the past two centuries; Situate reproduction in larger political, cultural, and social systems; Situate the US present moment in the global context; Analyze reproductive liberty and justice using feminist theoretical approaches
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027