In this conversation, Simidele Dosekun & Srila Roy trace the ways that gender and sexuality are both highly local and deeply transnational in the current landscape of neoliberalism. Dosekun’s Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture looks to beauty industry and practices in Lagos to explore the tension between self-construction and media representation in a world of savvy consumption and complex audiences for women’s embodied lives. Roy’s Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in … Continue reading Re-Fashioning Feminist Subjects: Authors’ Conversation
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Abortion, Digital Surveillance and the Problem with Privacy
Dr. Grace Tillyard is an ESRC postdoctoral researcher based at Goldsmiths College, London whose work looks at the intersections of reproductive politics and digital technologies/tech-capitalism. Once the initial shock of Roe’s reversal in June 2022 subsided, legal experts began to highlight the ways that the Dobbs decision weakens the Constitutional right to privacy previously codified … Continue reading Abortion, Digital Surveillance and the Problem with Privacy
Feminism(s) and the Politics of Reproduction, 2022/2009
Natalia Gerodetti and Véronique Mottier This post is a re-introduction to the 2009 Feminist Theory special issue on Feminism(s) and the Politics of Reproduction The much anticipated news of the US Supreme Court’s decision in late June 2022 to repudiate the constitutional protection of abortion rights could not have been worse for women’s reproductive rights … Continue reading Feminism(s) and the Politics of Reproduction, 2022/2009
Roe v. Wade is a Queer Issue; Liberals must treat it as such
Bex Heimbrock The US Supreme Court did not simply do away with abortion rights, they exposed the legal fiction of personhood for a majority of this country. Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion on the reversal of Roe explicitly invites the court to reconsider all prior substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. ‘Obergefell’ … Continue reading Roe v. Wade is a Queer Issue; Liberals must treat it as such
Abortion after Dobbs
Zoe L. Tongue, PhD candidate in Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences) On June 24, in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health (2022), the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional protection for pre-viability abortion confirmed in Roe v. Wade (1973) and the ‘undue burden’ threshold for restrictions on abortion … Continue reading Abortion after Dobbs
Taking matters into your own hands? Thinking through the social and political logics of IUC self-removal
Kristina Saunders, Lecturer in Sociology Since the leaked US Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade and its eventual overturning in June 2022, heightened attention has been drawn to self-managed abortion (SMA) (Gerson, 2022; Becker and McMahon, 2022). The World Health Organisation (WHO) (2020) support the provision of SMA, and some governments have continued … Continue reading Taking matters into your own hands? Thinking through the social and political logics of IUC self-removal
Plant Based Abortions
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Emily Gowen The office door is open just wide enough for you to see a woman taking an afternoon nap. Even asleep, she seems disarmingly self-assured, like she wouldn’t mind you seeing her sprawled out on her couch in the middle of the day. On a table beside her there is a doll. It has … Continue reading Dr. Heller
The Impact of Overturning Roe v. Wade in South Africa
Marion Stevens, Founding director of the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition in South Africa and PhD candidate| SARChI Chair in Gender Politics, Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University. The persistence of political and cultural wars in the United States has resonance in South Africa. With the leak of the Supreme Court opinion in early May … Continue reading The Impact of Overturning Roe v. Wade in South Africa
Abortion Bans and the Anti-Abortion Movement: Understanding Ultra-Sacrificial Motherhood
Dr Pam Lowe, Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Policy Dept., Aston University, Birmingham and Dr Sarah-Jane Page, Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Policy Dept., Aston University, Birmingham The overturning of the Roe vs Wade precedent, the case which gave a right to abortion in the US, has renewed global attention on the anti-abortion movement. Whilst it is … Continue reading Abortion Bans and the Anti-Abortion Movement: Understanding Ultra-Sacrificial Motherhood
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