Course Info: CSI-0256
| Course | CSI-0256 Creating Families |
| Long Title | Creating Families |
| Term | 2018F |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 101 on T,TH from 12:30-1:50 |
| Faculty | Marlene FriedüPamela Stone |
| Capacity | 30 |
| Available | 3 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Power, Community and Social Justice |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Students are expected to spend 6-8 hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. |
| Description | This course investigated the roles of law, culture, and technology in creating and re-defining families. We focused on the ways in which systems of reproduction reinforce and/or challenge inequalities of class, race, and gender. We examined the issues of entitlement to parenthood, domestic and international adoption, surrogacy, birthing, and parenting for people in prison, and the uses, consequences, and ethics of new reproductive technologies designed to help people give birth to biologically-related children. Questions addressed include: How does a person's status affect their relation to reproductive alternatives? What is the relationship between state reproductive policies and actual practices, legal, contested, and clandestine, that develop around these policies? How are notions of family and parenting enacted and transformed in an arena that is transnational, interracial, intercultural, and cross-class? |