WOME 4214
Regulating Reproduction and Families
Fall 2024 · Regulating Reproduction and Families / Reproductive Family Justice
Topics
- Introduction: What is Reproductive Justice?
- Kimala Price, “What is Reproductive Justice: How Women of Colour Activists are Re
- Defining the Pro-Choice Paradigm”, Meridians
- Involuntary Sterilization
- Systematic to the Systemic?”, Alberta Law Review
- Human Rights Watch, “Sterilization of Women and Girls with Disabilities”
- disabilities
- Erin Clarke, “Indigenous Women and the Risk of Reproductive Healthcare: Forced
- Human Rights and Social Work
- Birth Control
- Erika Dyck, “Sterilization and Birth Control in the Shadow of Eugenics: Married
- Middle-Class Women in Alberta, 1930s-1960s”, Canadian Bulletin of Medical
- History
- Christabelle Sethna, “The Evolution of the Birth Control Handbook”, Canadian Bulletin
- of Medical History
- Autonomy during Pregnancy
- Melanie Randall, “Pregnant Embodiment and Women’s Autonomy Rights in Law”
- Saskatchewan Law Review
- Sue Kraske, Kate Yung, Bec Jenkinson and Ann Catchlove, “Maternity Care Providers’
- Childbirth, 13
- Lara Tessaro, Alana Cattapan, Jennie Haw and Roxaee Mykitiuk, “Toxic Conceptions
- Chemical Exposures”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 31
Readings
- Kimala Price, “What is Reproductive Justice: How Women of Colour Activists are Re- Defining the Pro-Choice Paradigm”, Meridians 19 (2020), 340-362.
- Sterilization, Genocide, and Contemporary Population Control”, Journal of Human Rights and Social Work 6 (2021), 144-147.
- Erika Dyck, “Sterilization and Birth Control in the Shadow of Eugenics: Married, Middle-Class Women in Alberta, 1930s-1960s”, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 31 (2014), 165-187. Christabelle Sethna, “The Evolution of the Birth Control Handbook”, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 23 (2006), 89-118. Power to Decide:
- Melanie Randall, “Pregnant Embodiment and Women’s Autonomy Rights in Law”, Saskatchewan Law Review 62 (1999), 515-542. Sue Kraske, Kate Yung, Bec Jenkinson and Ann Catchlove, “Maternity Care Providers’ Perceptions of Women’s Autonomy and the Law”, BMC Pregnancy and
- Childbirth, April 4, 2013: 13-84. Lara Tessaro, Alana Cattapan, Jennie Haw and Roxaee Mykitiuk, “Toxic Conceptions: The Assessment and Regulation of Male-Mediated Transgenerational Effects of Chemical Exposures”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 31 (2) (2019), 346-385.
- Christabelle Sethna and Stephen Hewitt, “Clandestine Operations”, Canadian Historical Review 90 (3) (2009), 463-496. Sarah Burningham and Susan James, “Rights Talk, Aborting, and the Media: Tracking the Evolution of Abortion Discourse in Saskatchewan”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 34 (2) (2022), 307-330. Samuel Dickman, CNN, “Opinion: A year since Supreme Court’s abortion ruling, there’s a real human cost”: abortion-bans-impact-dickman/index.html. NOTE: Article Review assignment is due today.
- Rachel Johnstone, “How Much is that Gamete in the Window? Embryos, Policy, and the Law” 32 (1) (2020), 140-161. Stefanie Carsley, “Surrogacy in Canada: Lawyers’ Experiences and Practices”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 34 (1) (2022), 41-81. Lisa Ikemoto, “Reproductive Tourism: Equality Concerns in the Global Market for Fertility Services”, Law and Inequality 27 (2009), 294. Policy Options, “Should We Publicly Fund IVF in Canada”:
- Lori Chambers, “Newborn Adoption: Birth Mothers, Genetic Fathers and Reproductive Autonomy”, Canadian Journal of Family Law 26 (2) (2010), 339-394. UAB Institute for Human Rights, “Orphan Fever: The Dark Side of International Adoption”: side-of-international-adoption/. Lori Chambers, “Indigenous Children and Provincial Child Welfare: The ‘Sixties Scoop’”, in Aboriginal History in Canada, eds. Kristin Burnett and Geoff Read. Second edition (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2016).
- Lori Chambers, “In the Name of the Father: Children, Names and the Law in English Canada”, University of British Columbia Law Review 43 (1) (2010), 1-45. Donna Bouchard, “The Three-Parent Decision: A Case Commentary on A.A. v. B.B.”, Saskatchewan Law Review 70 (2007), 459-478. CNN, “Three dads, a baby, and their legal battle to get their names added to a birth certificate”: trnd/index.html. NOTE: Book or Film Review assignment is due today.
- Constance Backhouse, “Shifting Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Custody Law”, in Essays in the History of Canadian Law Volume, ed. David H. Flaherty (Osgoode Society for Legal History and the University of Toronto Press, 1981), 212-248. Andrew Woolford and James Gacek, “Genocidal Carcerality and Indigenous Residential Schools in Canada”, Punishment and Society 18 (4) (2016). Lori Chambers, Deb Zweep and Nadia Verrelli, “Paternal Filicide and Coercive Control: Reviewing the Evidence from Cotton v. Berry”, University of British Columbia Law Review 51 (3) (2018), 671-704.
- Lori Chambers, “Social Workers, Courts and the Implementation of the Children of Unmarried Parents Act”, in Essays in the History of Canadian Law Volume 10: A Tribute to Peter Oliver, eds. Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry and John Saywell. (Osgoode Society for Legal History and the University of Toronto Press, 2008). Jodi Lazare, “The Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines, Soft Law, and the Procedural Rule of Law”, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 31 (2) (2019), 317-345.
- Winona LaDuke, “Akswesasne”, All Our Relations (Cambridge: South End Press, 1999), 11-26. Lori Chambers, “Boil-Water Advisories and Government (In)Action: The Politics of Indigenous People and Potable Water in Pikangikum First Nation”, Journal of Canadian Studies, 51 (2) (spring 2017), 289-310. Elizabeth Hoover, Katsi Cook, Ron Plain, Kathy Sanchez, Vi Waghiyi, Pamela Miller, Renee Dufault, Caitlin Sislin, and David Carpenter, “Indigenous Peoples of North America: Environmental Exposures and Reproductive Justice”, Environmental Health Perspectives 120 (12) (2012): EPA, “Climate Change and the Health of Pregnant, Breastfeeding, and Postpartum Women”: pregnant-breastfeeding-and-postpartum-women. NOTE: Creative Project is due today.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2024
- Course source ↗
- Additional readings or course materials are supplied through the course site or course pack.