Course Info: CSI-0225
| Course | CSI-0225 Reproductive Justice |
| Long Title | Reproductive Justice |
| Term | 2024S |
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| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 101 on T,TH from 10:30-11:50 |
| Faculty | Jina Fast |
| Capacity | 23 |
| Available | -2 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time Books: Title:Killing the Black Body Author:Dorothy Roberts ISBN:978-0679758693 Cost:$10-15 Title:Reproductive Justice: An Introduction Author:Loretta Ross and Rickie Solinger ISBN:978-0520288201 Cost:$20-30 |
| Description | Black women activists and organizers first coined the term "reproductive justice" in the summer of 1994 while organizing to expand the scope of the Clinton administration's Health Security Act. As a critical theoretical framework, reproductive justice moves beyond the abortion "choice" debates, encompassing a wide range of issues impacting the reproductive lives of marginalized people, including but not limited to the right to have children, not have children, parent the children one has, access safe contraception, comprehensive and culturally informed sex education, prevention and treatment for STIs, access to liberated and liberating birth methods, technologies, and outcomes, what it means to queer access to ARTs, ethical questions around surrogacy, the racialized and colonialist politics of foster care and adoption, adequate prenatal and pregnancy care, adequate wages, and safe(r) homes. In this class we will cover theory and community practices that emerge from a reproductive justice framework as well as what a such a framework suggests for related and intersecting justice issues. Keywords:Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Philosophy of Race, Social Justice The content of this course deals with issues of race and power. This course could be used to fulfill the Division II Project requirement |