ANTH 405 Race, Culture, and Reproductive Health
This course concerns the reproductive health experiences, including those focused on sexuality, birth, and motherhood, of women and birthing people 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. If the course is taken for undergraduate credit, it cannot be used for graduate credit.
Credits
4