Session 5: July 8
Section outline
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Tenet 2: The Right to Have A Child
Infertility & Eugenics: Stratified Reproduction & Sterilization
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Bell, A. V. (2016). The margins of medicalization: Diversity and context through the case of infertility. Social Science & Medicine, 156, 39–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.03.005
Ross, L., & Solinger, R. (2017). Reproductive Justice: An Introduction. University of California Press. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/brynmawr/detail.action?docID=4711991.
Read: Chap 4 (this chapter is long, please try to skim)
Turner, K. A., Spurlin, E. E., & Jimenez, P. T. (2023). Disparities in Female Oncofertility Care in the United States: More Questions Than Answers. Life, 13(7), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13071547
Recommended (not required):
Inhorn, M. C., Ceballo, R., & Nachtigall, R. (2009). Marginalized, invisible and unwanted: American minority struggles with infertility and assisted conception. In L. Culley, N. Hudson, & F. van Rooij (Eds.), Marginalized reproduction (pp. 181–195). Routledge.
Payne, J. G., & Erbenius, T. (2018). Conceptions of transgender parenthood in fertility care and family planning in Sweden: From reproductive rights to concrete practices. Anthropology & Medicine, 25(3), 329–343. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2018.1507485
Roberts, D. E. (2009). Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia? Signs, 34(4), 783–804. https://doi.org/10.1086/597132
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This is a video that discusses some aspects of infertility and the importance of access to ART from a RJ lens. Please watch and we will briefly discuss this video during our next class.
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