Understanding Reproductive Justice

Ross, Loretta J.

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“…Originating in black feminist activism, those advocating for reproductive justice crucially draw attention to: the right not to have children; the right to have children; the right to parent children in safe and healthy environments; and that these rights can be exercised without coercion (Price, 2010). Importantly for the present research, the reproductive justice framework is attentive to the social context and histories of marginalization that shape how women experience reproduction and make decisions (Ross, 2006). Reproductive justice can therefore shift the focus from neoliberal notions of individual choice to understand reproductive decisions as connected to the social world and other people, and therefore as facilitated or constrained based on access to resources, which the experiences of participants in this research speak to.…”

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‘I Think I Stick Out a Bit’: The Classification of Reproductive Decision-Making

Saunders

2020

Sociological Research Online

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This article provides an empirical insight into the operation of neoliberal, postfeminist, and middle-class norms which intersect to classify reproduction as imperative for some women, while for ‘others’ it is classified as inappropriate and in need of regulation. This valuation constructs an idealized reproductive citizen and a hierarchy of decisions about having children, while the inequalities and different material conditions that structure reproductive decisions and trajectories are ignored. This article will therefore demonstrate how the middle-class, neoliberal, and postfeminist subject of value operates in relation to reproduction in a social, political, and gendered context that emphasizes choice, individual responsibility, and self-investment and future planning. However, evidence of resistance to classification will also be shown, which provides an insight into how this valued reproductive citizen is negotiated.

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Saunders

2020

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“…Reproductive Justice is a positive approach that links sexuality, health, and human rights to social justice movements by placing abortion and reproductive health issues in the larger context of the well-being and health of women, families and communities because reproductive justice seamlessly integrates those individual and group human rights particularly important to marginalized communities. (Ross, 2011) Domains 4 and 5 highlight the importance of simultaneously addressing both lactation, as a biological function, and breastfeeding, as an embodied form of caregiving that is socially constructed. We have throughout history recognized that lactation is part of women's reproductive system; as such it has the potential to reinforce specific gendered approaches to caregiving.…”

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“…For example, a woman cannot make an individual decision about her body if she is part of a community whose human rights as a group are violated, such as through environmental dangers or insufficient quality health care. (Ross, 2011) Acknowledgements. I would like to acknowledge the members of the planning committee for the 12th Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference: Funding.…”

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Social Justice at the Core of Breastfeeding Protection, Promotion and Support: A Conceptualization

Smith

2018

J Hum Lact

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Despite widespread awareness of the health benefits for both mothers and babies we are far from achieving universal breastfeeding. Breastfeeding rates globally are lower than recommended levels and there are concerns that some global breastfeeding efforts have stalled (1, 2). In addition, we see persistent disparities in breastfeeding rates by race, ethnicity, class and status (3). A growing literature documents how a range of injustices, including gender inequality (7), racism (8), poverty (9), and violence (10, 11) shape whether, how exclusive, and for how long mothers and others will be able to breastfeed or feed their infants human milk. These social injustices and inequities work to privilege breastfeeding even as the health message becomes more mainstreamed and human milk more desirable. A social justice approach could help us address the gender, race, and sexuality-based inequities and injustices in opportunities, resources, status, and power that are influencing the patterns of breastfeeding we see today. The 12th Breastfeeding and Feminism International Conference held in 2017 took as its theme Breastfeeding as Social Justice: From Crucial Conversation to Inspired Action. The planning team for that conference identified seven core domains that could help us conceptualize a framework for placing social justice at the core of our work. This paper presents this framework and suggestions for policy and practice that follow.

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Reproductive justice activism in the post‐Dobbs era

Zavella

2023

Feminist Anthropology

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Reproductive governance and anti‐abortion discourse increased dramatically after the Dobbs decision ended Roe. To reproductive justice advocates, this decision came after the pandemic lockdown that left staff working from home and they see it as a human rights crisis. In light of these radical changes, how are reproductive justice debates framed in the United States by women of color? Drawing on ethnographic research, I suggest that while the abortion landscape has provoked more polarization, reproductive justice activists, particularly women of color, have deepened their commitment to their human rights and intersectional approach that advocates for the most structurally vulnerable.

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Understanding Reproductive Justice

Cited by 65 publications

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‘I Think I Stick Out a Bit’: The Classification of Reproductive Decision-Making

‘I Think I Stick Out a Bit’: The Classification of Reproductive Decision-Making

Social Justice at the Core of Breastfeeding Protection, Promotion and Support: A Conceptualization

Reproductive justice activism in the post‐Dobbs era

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