Our invited scholars will explore how cultural and political commitments shape and constrain the conditions under which women and people of color control their reproductive lives and experience ownership over their own biology. This lecture series will approach these issues from a historical and ethnographic perspective, exploring the eugenics movement, progressive era public health reform, cultural politics of abortion, and the science of women’s reproductive systems.

SPRING QUARTER SPEAKERS

“Racial and Reproductive Injustice: The Long History of Eugenic Sterilization in California”

• TUESDAY, APRIL 14TH
• Alexandra Stern
• Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Culture, and History (University of Michigan)

“American Population Politics in Global Perspective”

• MONDAY, MAY 4TH
• Siri Suh
• Assistant Professor (Barnard College)

“Un(rely)able: The Technological Health Crisis of Toxic Shock Syndrome & Rely Tampons”

• WEDNESDAY, MAY 27TH
• Sharra Vostral
• Associate Professor (Purdue University)