NAIS 30.30 Indigenous Approaches to Reproductive Justice
What are the conditions that provide a dignified life? What are the histories and contemporary reproductive lives of marginalized people (e.g., access to contraception, comprehensive and culturally informed sex education, birth work/birthing methods, prenatal and pregnancy care, menopause).This seminar will utilize Indigenous knowledges and approaches to consider sites like healthcare systems, tribal governments, and tribal sovereignty as profoundly connected to reproductive justice. This course will provide a theoretical understanding of reproductive justice and Marxist feminist theory on reproductive and social labor. We will explore these questions through legal cases, books, historical readings, first-person narratives, films, podcasts, and scholarly articles.