Women's Action for Social Change

Topics

• In this course, students
• women’s activism as it relates to reproductive rights and reproductive justice. Drawing on
• evolution of reproductive rights in Canada and situate current debates regarding abortion, right
• to privacy, birth control, reproductive care and access, within their historical and geographical
• and gain an understanding of the socio-cultural and legal distinctions between regional, national
• exploration of distinctions between reproductive rights and reproductive justice
• Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada, by Martha Paynter
• Price: $34 CAD
• Course text can be found through the Lakehead University Bookstore (including digital copies
• upon request)
• and understand key moments in the reproductive rights movement
• in Canda
• reproductive justice
• Evaluate and develop political, ethical and feminist arguments regarding
• reproductive justice, bodily autonomy and human rights
• Contextualize current reproductive rights challenges