HERE ARE SOME OF THE TEACHING MATERIALS ON REPRODUCTIVE IN/JUSTICE FROM OUR FACULTY.

 

GWS 100 Introduction to GWS with Professor Teresa Barnes

Lynne Curry, "Beyond 'Choice': Roe v. Wade as U. S. Constitutional History"

Brianna Theobald, "Self-Determination Begins in the Womb," Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century

La'Tasha D. Mayes, "Reproductive Justice: The Ultimate Political Countermove for Black Women"

Dov Fox, Eli Y. Adashi, and I. Glenn Cohen, "A Troubling Court Decision for Reproductive Rights: Legal Recognition of Fetal Standing to Sue"

Lecture 1/ Lecture 2 Powerpoints

 

GWS 100 Introduction to GWS with Professor Emma Velez

L. Hinojosa Hernández, “Feminist Approaches to Border Studies and Gender Violence: Family Separation as Reproductive Injustice”

W. Dowe, "“The Traumas of Irwin Continue to Haunt Me”: Non-Consensual Surgery Survivor Seeks Restitution, Calls to Shut Down Detention Centers" (link)
 
The State of Eugenics (PBS video, 56 min, link)
 
28-minute lecture video on reproductive injustice: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_qkgu4qtn
 

Kimala Price, "What Is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm"

Black Feminist Rants, “Abortion Storytelling and The Myth of "Pro-Life Feminism" w/ Renee Bracey Sherman” (Podcast Link + Transcript; 60 min) 
 
25-minute lecture on reproductive justice: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_rtks4ozd
 

 

GWS 201 Race, Gender and Power with Professor Damian Vergara Bracamontes

Zavella, Patricia. "Intersectional praxis in the movement for reproductive justice: The respect ABQ women campaign." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 42, no. 2 (2017): 509-533.

Zavella, Patricia. "Contesting structural vulnerability through reproductive justice activism with Latina immigrants in California." North American Dialogue 19, no. 1 (2016): 36-45.

Patton-Imani, Sandra. “What about the Children?: Genealogies of Illegitimacy and Reproductive Injustice, 1990–2000.” In Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood, 109–35. NYU Press, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1n6ptt7.7.

Hernández, Leandra Hinojosa, and Sarah De Los Santos Upton. "Transgender migrant rights, reproductive justice, and the Mexico–US border in the time of COVID-19." QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 7, no. 3 (2020): 142-150.

Vora, Kalindi. "Intertwined Colonial Pasts and the Present in Global Fertility Chains." Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 8, no. 1 (2022).

Legal Cases: 1978: Madrigal V Quilligan https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/madrigal-v-quilligan

Film: Tajima-Peña, Renee, No Más Bebés, February 1, 2016.

 

GWS 282 Feminist and Queer Activisms with Professor Mimi Thi Nguyen

Natalie Lira and Alexandra M. Stern, 2014, “Mexican Americans and Eugenic Sterilization: Resisting Reproductive Injustice in California, 1920- 1950,” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies Vol. 39, No. 2.: 9-34

Jennifer Nelson, 2001, “’Abortions Under Community Control’: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Politics of Reproduction among New York City’s Young Lords,” Journal of Women’s History, Vol 13, No. 1:157-180.

Various, 2004, Jane: Documents from Chicago's Clandestine Abortion Service, 1968-1973, Baltimore: firestarter press.

32-minute lecture on reproductive control: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_faztyaic

 

GWS 387 History of Sexuality with Professor Damian Vergara Bracamontes

Beth Bailey, “Prescribing the Pill: Politics, Culture, and the Sexual Revolution in America’s Heartland,” Journal of Social History 30.4 (1997): 827-856.

Rivers, Daniel. “In the Best Interests of the Child”: Lesbian and Gay Parenting Custody Cases, 1967–1985." Journal of Social History 43, no. 4 (2010): 917-943.

 

GWS 395 Policing Latinx (Im)migrant Communities with Professor Damian Vergara Bracamontes

Martinez, Roberto, “The Border and Human Rights: A Testimony,” del Castillo, Richard Griswold, ed. Chicano San Diego: Cultural Space and the Struggle for Justice.

Escobar, Martha, “Violent Formations: Criminalizing and Disciplining (Im)migrant Women,” Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants.

Patiño, Jimmy. “He had a Uniform and Authority, Border Patrol Violence, Women’s Agency, and Chicano/Mexicano Resistance,” Raza Sí, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego.

 

OTHER REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE SYLLABI:

The Asian American Writers' Workshop: Black and Asian Reproductive Justice Syllabus

Black Women Radicals: Reproductive Justice: A Reading List

Radical History Review: U.S. Abortion Politics In Context

 

MORE ESSENTIAL READING AND LISTENING:

 

Laura Briggs, 2002,  Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and US Imperialism in Puerto Rico, Berkeley: UC Press.

Barbara Gurr, 2015,  Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Natalie Lira, 2021, Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900–1950s, Berkeley: UC Press.

Robin Marty, 2021, The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America, Seven Stories Press. (Free e-book download)

Leslie Reagan, 1997, When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973, Berkeley: UC Press.

Leslie J. Reagan, “Caught in the Net,” Slate, Sept. 10, 2021, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/09/enforcement-of-abortion-laws-before-roe-v-wade.html

Leslie J. Reagan, “Texas’s New Abortion Law Threatens Women’s Health and Well-Being,” “Washington Post, Made by History, June 28, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/06/28/texass-new-abortion-law-threatens-womens-health-wellbeing/

Loretta Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, and Pamela Bridgewater, 2017, Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundation, Theory, Practice, Critique, New York: The Feminist Press. muse.jhu.edu/book/62729. (all chapters available through UIUC's library website)

Loretta Ross, 2017, "Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism," Souls 19: 286-314. 

Loretta Ross, 2006, "The color of choice: white supremacy and reproductive justice," in Color of Violence : the Incite! Anthology. Cambridge, Mass: South End Press.
 

Dorothy Roberts, 1998, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty, Vintage Publishers.

Jael Silliman, Marlene G. Fried, Loretta Ross, Elena Gutierrez, eds., 2016, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, Haymarket Press.

Hortense Spillers, 1982, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” Diacritics 17.2: 65-81.

Podcasts and Videos
 

Sunday, March 6, 2022, Chicago Women's History Center Women's History Month Event, “Illinois’s Reproductive Health Act & the War on Women’s Choice:  History, Policy, and Practice,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NuA06B5cA

NPR All Things Considered, “She Was Out in Front of the Fight to Legalize Abortion,” Oct. 11, 2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/10/11/1045084662/she-was-out-in-front-of-the-fight-to-legalize-abortion-but-few-know-her-name

Ezra Klein Show, New York Times, Podcast, “We’re on the Precipice of a Post-Roe World,” Sept. 21, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-leslie-reagan.html.

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, February 6, 2020, "History of Abortion Legislation," C-SPAN.
 
The Daily: Roe v. Wade, Part 1 & Part 2 
 
 
Documentaries