Course Info: CSI-0271
| Course | CSI-0271 Creating Families |
| Long Title | Creating Families: Law, Culture and Technology |
| Term | 2020F |
| Note(s) |
Limited to Div II/III Students Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | on T,TH from 1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Marlene FriedüPamela Stone |
| Capacity | 40 |
| Available | 23 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | This course is fully remote. Students are expected to spend 6-8 hours on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | This course investigates the roles of law, culture and technology in creating and re-defining families. We focus on the ways in which systems of reproduction reinforce and/or challenge inequalities of class, race and gender. We examine 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 to be addressed include: What is family? 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? |