WGSS 44 Imagining Reproductive Justice in the Americas

In this course we will study attempts to regulate and restrict population, abortion, surrogacy, adoption, and motherhood in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, and trace how these attempts connect to US empire, capitalism, patriarchy, and cultural nationalism. We will also consider anticolonial, feminist, Marxist, and queer visions of reproductive justice, primarily through readings of novels, films, and manifestos. We will use these historical and cultural examples to think through difficult questions of individual freedom and community responsibility, desire and choice, and the redistribution or elimination of reproductive labor.

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Department-Specific Course Categories

Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies