Listed in: Anthropology and Sociology, as ANTH-238 | Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies, as SWAG-238
Haile E. Cole (Section 01)
(Offered as ANTH 238 and SWAG 238) This course concerns the reproductive health experiences, including those focused on sexuality, birth, and motherhood, of women in the United States. It explores the relationship between these experiences and the fact of having a black female body (as was first constructed under slavery). It also explores the complex relationship between women’s reproductive experiences and their contemporary racial and socioeconomic locations in American society. The aim is to garner a thorough and sophisticated understanding of why “reproductive justice” is elusive in the contemporary United States and to consider what might be done about it.
Limited to 35 students. Spring semester. Visiting Professor H. Cole.
Section 01
M 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM WEBS 220
W 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM WEBS 220
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty | Pantheon Books | Roberts, Dorothy E. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare | Basic Cavitas Books | Roberts, Dorothy E. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures | Farrar, Straus and Girou | Fadiman, Anne | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Reproducting Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization | University of California Press | Bridges, Khiara | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.