WGSS 2296H: Reproductive Rights and Justice [Spring 2014] W/F 9:35-10:55 Koffolt Lab 131 Instructor: Dr. Mytheli Sreenivas [email protected] 247-8057 (do not leave voicemail) Office Hours: Mondays 9:30-11:00 and by appointment COURSE DESCRIPTION Why is reproduction such a controversial issue, both in the US and in many parts of the world? What do we mean by reproductive rights, and what is the relationship between rights and reproductive justice? How do reproductive technologies—such as surrogacy, IVF, new contraceptives—shape reproductive politics? What is the relationship between reproductive rights, justice, and feminism? This class takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the history and contemporary politics of reproduction beyond a “pro-life” vs. “pro-choice” dichotomy. We will focus on both US and global contexts. Our sources will include legal and historical documents, studies in reproductive and public health, ethnographies, and film. COURSE MATERIALS The following books are available for purchase at University Bookstore. These books are also on closed (2 hour) reserve at the library.

1. Nancy Ehrenreich, ed. The Reproductive Rights Reader: Law, Medicine, and the Construction of Motherhood (2008).

2. Betsy Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control (rev. ed. 1999).

3. M. Catherine Maternowska, Reproducing Inequities: Poverty and the Politics of Population in Haiti (2006).

4. Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1998). Additional readings will be made available through the course Carmen site. Please bring either electronic or hard copies of these materials to class. COURSE EXPECTATIONS AND GRADES

1. Attendance and Participation [20%]: This is a discussion based course, so please come to class having done the readings and be prepared to discuss your questions and comments with your fellow students. Of course, in order to participate effectively, you will need to attend class regularly. Students who are absent will incur a grade penalty. 2. Presentation [10%]: Each student (working in pairs) will prepare a presentation on the readings and help to facilitate discussion for the first 20 minutes of class. Your presentation should include a brief overview of the readings that will generate class discussion. Your presentation should not simply summarize the readings. Instead, you should raise questions and points of discussion, draw connections among the texts, and link the reading to broader themes in the course. 3. Response Papers [15% each]: I will assign two response papers (4-5 pages each) based on course materials. You will not need to conduct outside research. 4. Final Research Project [5% proposal, 5% presentation, 30% final paper, total: 40%]: The final project (8-10 pages) will require that you research a topic of your choice that is relevant to the themes of the course. In preparation, you will submit a research proposal, and are welcome to meet with me individually to discuss your work. You will also present your work during the last week of class. I am open to the possibility of incorporating digital media into your final project; we will discuss this as a class.

COURSE POLICIES

1. Disability: Students with disabilities that have been certified by the Office for Disability Services will be appropriately accommodated, and should inform the instructor as soon as possible of their needs. The Office for Disability Services is located in 150 Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue; telephone 292-3307, TDD 292-0901; http://www.ods.ohio- state.edu/. 2. Academic Misconduct: It is the responsibility of the Committee on Academic Misconduct to investigate or establish procedures for the investigation of all reported cases of student academic misconduct. The term academic misconduct includes all forms of student academic misconduct wherever committed; illustrated by, but not limited to, cases of plagiarism and dishonest practices in connection with examinations. Instructors shall report all instances of alleged academic misconduct to the committee (Faculty Rule 3335-5-487). For additional information, see the Code of Student Conduct (http://studentaffairs.osu.edu/resource_csc.asp). Here is a direct link for discussion of plagiarism: http://cstw.osu.edu/writingCenter/handouts/research_plagiarism.cfm. Here is the direct link to the OSU Writing Center: http://cstw.osu.edu 3. Class Cancellation: In the unlikely event of class cancellation due to emergency, I will contact you via e-mail and request that a note be placed on the door. In addition, I will contact you as soon as possible following the cancellation to let you know what will be expected of you for our next class meeting.

SCHEDULE OF READING AND ASSIGNMENTS ** Readings marked as “CM” are available on the course Carmen site. January 8: Introduction Defining Reproductive Rights in the U.S.: Medicine, Law, and Feminism January 10

 Leslie Reagan, “When Abortion was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973,” in the Reproductive Rights Reader

 Kristin Luker, “Medicine and Morality in the Nineteenth Century,” in the Reproductive Rights Reader  Eileen V. Wallis, “’The Verdict Created No Great Surprise Upon the Street’: Abortion, Medicine, and the Regulatory State in Progressive-Era Lost Angeles,” Frontiers, Special Issue on Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice, vol. 34, no. 3 (2013): 48- 72. January 15

 Rickie Sollinger, “Racializing the Nation: From the Declaration of Independence to the Emancipation Proclamation, 1776-1865,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader

 Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body, chapters 1-2 January 17

 Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English, “The Sexual Politics of Sickness,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader

 Alexandra Dundas Todd, “Delusions in Discourse,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader

 Emily Martin, “Body Narratives, Body Boundaries,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader January 22

 Roe v. Wade, in The Reproductive Rights Reader

 Rosalind Petcheskey, “Beyond a Woman’s Right to Choose: Feminist Ideas about Reproductive Rights,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader

 Reva B. Siegel, “Abortion as a Sex Equality Right: Its Basis in Feminist Theory” in The Reproductive Rights Reader January 24

 Film: [screened in class] I had an Abortion, dir. Gillian Aldrich and Jennifer Baumgardner January 29

 Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body, chapters 3-7 January 31

 Deborah L. Rhode, “Politics and Pregnancy: Adolescent Mothers and Public Policy,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader

 Cynthia Dailard, “Sex Education: Politicians, Parents, Teachers, and Teens and Understanding ‘Abstinence’: Implications for Individuals, Programs, and Policies,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader

 Diana M. Pearce, “ ‘Children having children’: Teenage Pregnancy and Public Policy from the Woman’s Perspective,” in The Politics of Pregnancy: Adolescent Sexuality and Public Policy, ed. Annette Lawson and Deborah L. Rhode, CM. February 5

 The Education of Shelby Knox, dir. Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt (screened in class) February 7

 Mytheli Sreenivas, “Introduction: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice.”

 “Roundtable: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice.”

 Carol Mason, “How Not to Pimp out Reproductive Justice: Adventures in Education, Activism, and Accountability.”

 Note: All of the articles for today appeared in Frontiers: Special Issue on Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice, vol. 34, no. 3 (2013), and are available online. February 12: NO CLASS; FIRST RESPONSE PAPER DUE Desired Numbers: Population and Reproduction February 14

 Betsy Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, introduction and chapters 1-4

 Desired Number, dir. Ngozi Onwurah (film screened in class) February 19

 Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, chapters 5, 10-12 February 21

 Hartmann, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, chapters 13-16 February 26

 Something Like a War, dir. Deepa Dhanraj, [screened in class] February 28

 PROPOSALS FOR FINAL PROJECT DUE FOR PEER REVIEW March 5

 M. Catherine Maternowska, Reproducing Inequities, chapters 1, 3, 4

 FINAL PROJECT PROPOSALS DUE in Carmen dropbox March 7

 Maternowska, Reproducing Inequities, chapters 6, 7 March 12 and 14: Spring Break! March 19

 Ann Anagnost, “A Surfeit of Bodies: Population and the Rationality of the State in Post- Mao China” in Conceiving the New World Order

 Susan Greenhalgh, “China’s Population Policies: Engendered Biopolitics, the One-Child Norm, and the Masculinization of Child Sex Ratios” in Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-Liberal Times, ed. Mohan Rao and Sarah Sexton; CM

Reproductive Technologies Across Borders March 21

 Martha Ertman, “What’s wrong with a parenthood market? A new and improved theory of commodification,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader

 Laura Purdy, Reproducing Persons: Issues in Feminist Bioethics, chapters 10, 11; CM

 Lori Andrews, “Is there a right to clone? Constitutional challenges to the ban on human cloning,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader. March 26

 Laura Mamo, “From Whence We Came: Sex without reproduction meets reproduction without sex,” and “Going High-Tech: Infertility Expertise and Lesbian Reproductive Practices,” in Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience, CM.

 Conceiving Family (film screened in class) March 28

 Richard F. Storrow, “The Erasure of Egg Providers in Stem Cell Science,” in Frontiers: Special Issue on Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice, vol. 34, no. 3 (2013): 189-212.

 Aditya Bharadwaj, “Reproductive Viability and the State: Embryonic Stem Cell Research in India,” Reproduction, Globalization and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives; CM

 RESPONSE PAPER #2 DUE April 2

 Rayna Rapp, “How Methodology Bleeds into Daily Life,” and “Refusing,” in Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The social impact of amniocentesis in America,” CM.  Marsha Saxton, “Disability Rights and Selective Abortion,” in The Reproductive Rights Reader April 4

 We will use class time today for individual meetings on your final project. April 9

 Daisy Deomampo, “Transnational Surrogacy in India: Interrogating Power and Women’s Agency,” in Frontiers: Special Issue on Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice, vol. 34, no. 3 (2013).

 Made in India: A film about surrogacy, dir. Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sina (screened in class) April 11

 Elizebeth F.S. Roberts, “’Native’ Narratives of Connectedness: Surrogate Motherhood and Technology,” in Cyborg Babies; CM

 Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, “Speaking of Solidarity: Transnational Gestational Surrogacy and the Rhetorics of Reproductive (In)Justice,” in Frontiers: Special Issue on Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice vol. 34, no. 3 (2013). April 16: Presentations April 18: Presentations April 23: Final Project Due (university-scheduled exam date for this course)