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HIST SCI 537

CHILDBIRTH IN THE UNITED STATES

3 credits.

Using a reproductive justice framework, analyze contexts, experiences, practices, ideologies, and historiographies of childbirth in the United States from roughly the 17th century to the present, with the heaviest emphasis on the 20th and 21st century. Examines the ways that colonization, genocide, enslavement, racism, capitalism, heterosexism, patriarchy, and ableism have shaped all of these aspects of childbirth. Inquire how key movements and groups resisting some of these forms of oppression have had the power to reshape birth, as well as locating in birth a source of transformational power.

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Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain of the framework of reproductive justice, and use it to analyze contemporary discourses, practices, and conditions of childbirth. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Assess how racial, sexual, gender, economic, and colonial domination and resistance have shaped both reproductive realities and the ways that childbirth histories have been written and circulated. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and discuss shifting ideologies and practices of childbirth in the United States over time, and relate these to power. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain of the framework of reproductive justice, and use it to analyze contemporary discourses, practices, and conditions of childbirth. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Assess how racial, sexual, gender, economic, and colonial domination and resistance have shaped both reproductive realities and the ways that childbirth histories have been written and circulated. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and discuss shifting ideologies and practices of childbirth in the United States over time, and relate these to power. Audience: Undergraduate

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