Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism

Ross, Loretta J.

doi:10.1080/10999949.2017.1389634

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“…Our assessment of the past decade, which was grounded by gender, feminist, and intersectionality scholarship across multiple social science fields (e.g., Choo & Ferree, ; Cole, ; Collins & Bilge, ; Dill & Kohlman, ; England, ; K. E. Ferguson, ; Lloyd, Few, & Allen, ; Ross, ), found that family scholars are incorporating the dimensions that Ferree () recommended in the last Journal of Marriage and Family decade in review article on the status of feminist scholarship in family studies. In her review, Ferree used the metaphor of a glass being half full, half empty to describe how family scholars have approached the study of gender in families, the workplace, and interactions with institutions.…”

Section: Thematic Analysis Of Trends In Gender Feminist and Intersementioning

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Gender, Feminist, and Intersectional Perspectives on Families: A Decade in Review

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Allen

2020

J of Marriage and Family

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This review of the gender, feminist, and intersectional literature on families from 2010 to 2019 examines the following three streams of research, theorizing, and praxis: (a) the framing of gender as systemic social stratification and inequalities, (b) the application of feminist perspectives and praxis to highlight and change power disparities in private and public spheres; and (c) the application of intersectionality perspectives to examine and redress social inequities, privilege, and oppression. Collectively, these streams represent variations of a critical theoretical perspective on families. This article has the following three aims: (a) examine how the critical approaches of gender, feminist, and intersectional theories have been used to frame the study of family life during the past decade; (b) identify and assess empirical exemplars in the family literature that highlight the explicit application of these critical approaches; and (c) discuss future directions to push the study of families forward toward more inclusivity and relevance.

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Section: Thematic Analysis Of Trends In Gender Feminist and Intersementioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, Feminist, and Intersectional Perspectives on Families: A Decade in Review

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Allen

2020

J of Marriage and Family

106

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“…In previous research we and others have argued that family separation and migrant violence is reproductive injustice (De Los Santos Upton, 2019; Hernández, 2019) and that reproductive justice can only be achieved when equitable and supportive healthcare is a reality for women of all backgrounds, including the ability and freedom to make their own informed decisions about whether or not to reproduce, free from intervention (Ross et al, 2016;Ross, 2017;Ross and Solinger, 2017;De Los Santos Upton, 2018, 2019). By extension, for women who do choose to have children, reproductive justice also includes the right to carry, birth, and raise children in safe cities free from toxic, environmental, and legal/governmental pollutants and intervention.…”

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“…For example, in the area of rape, intersectionality provides a way of explaining why women of color have to abandon the general argument that the interests of the community require the suppression of any confrontation around intraracial rape. (p. 1299) Moreover, as Ross (2017) notes, in the spirit of the Combahee River Collective, reproductive justice activists have long utilized intersectionality as a guiding theoretical frame to shift reproductive politics and articulate "our demand for recognition of our full reproductive and sexual human rights" (p. 287). By moving past the pro-life/pro-choice binary that consistently characterizes reproductive rights discourses (Hernández and De Los Santos Upton, 2018) and by considering the intersections of racism, sexism, xenophobia, and classism, we can more thoroughly interrogate the factors that facilitate reproductive migrant rights violations at the U.S.-Mexico border.…”

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“…As health communication scholars interested in reproductive justice and activism, it is important to keep in mind that the personal is always political. As black feminists have long noted, black motherhood is inherently always political, because in caring for children and raising them, we cannot simply accept the world as it is (Ross, 2017;McClain, 2019). Thus, in this same vein, we operate from the understanding that motherhood for women of color is always political particularly because of our current political, racial, and cultural climate.…”

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Critical Health Communication Methods at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Violence Against Migrant Women and the Role of Health Activism

Hernández

Upton

2019

Front. Commun.

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This essay re/envisions what critical health communication methods look like on the U.S.-Mexico border in reproductive justice contexts. For example, traditional health communication theories and methods have privileged objectivity, generalizability, and the creation of critically important health communication patterns and concepts that have guided the development, deployment, and execution of health communication programs and cultural competence programs. However, in this article, we discuss the utility and application of an intersectional/critical health communication reproductive justice method and envision its praxis in contexts like the U.S.-Mexico border. As two Chicana feminist reproductive justice/health communication scholars, our own research on reproductive feminicides throughout the U.S. and Latin America has necessitated the blending of a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches-border theories, intersectionality, Chicana feminisms, and health communication theories and methods. Thus, this essay traces the blending of these theories and methods and discusses how critical intersectional feminist health communication methods can be utilized in activist ways to resist reproductive and gendered violence at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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“…As this paper focuses on the acceptance of a minority group that has historically experienced social and legal restrictions to family formation, a reproductive justice lens is helpful in framing this project. Reproductive justice centres reproductive rights (including health and parenting concerns) as social justice issues, and is both a movement and platform for activism and academic enquiry begun by black women in the USA ( Briggs, 2017 , Ross, 2017 ). This lens is useful as it contextualizes assisted reproduction and gay men's position(s) within a larger historical framework of stratified reproduction.…”

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A limited market: the recruitment of gay men as surrogacy clients by the infertility industry in the USA

Jacobson¹

2018

Reproductive Biomedicine & Society Online

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Gestational surrogacy via egg donation is an expensive – and sometimes ambivalently undertaken – but increasingly popular route to planned fatherhood for some gay men. The surrogacy market in the USA plays an important role for gay men with the financial resources to access these services, as it is currently the only stable, commercial market in which there are legal protections for openly gay men. While a small, ethnographic and qualitative literature on the experiences of gay fathers via surrogacy exists, less is known about the state of the surrogacy industry towards gay men as clients. Here I investigate the surrogacy industry in the USA to ask how welcome gay men are in this market. I do so via a content analysis of patient/client recruitment on infertility clinic and surrogacy agency websites. Content analysis of 547 websites indicates that the majority of infertility clinics (62%) and 42% of surrogacy agencies do not directly advertise or appear to be welcoming to gay men. A minority of gay-friendly clinics and agencies, which cluster geographically, actively recruit gay men, creating a limited but niche market. The unequal recruitment of gay men as infertility clients reflects how normative ideas about gender, sexuality and social class are reproduced in the infertility industry. This, in turn, may impact gay men's procreative consciousness and decision-making about parenting, and exacerbate inequalities around their access to intentional genetic parenthood.

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Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism

Cited by 256 publications

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Gender, Feminist, and Intersectional Perspectives on Families: A Decade in Review

Gender, Feminist, and Intersectional Perspectives on Families: A Decade in Review

Critical Health Communication Methods at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Violence Against Migrant Women and the Role of Health Activism

A limited market: the recruitment of gay men as surrogacy clients by the infertility industry in the USA

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