Spring 2027

The Science and Politics of Reproductive Health

Examines the science and politics of reproductive health in North America through a reproductive justice lens, covering eugenics, abortion, and public health policy.

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Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Define and use a reproductive justice framework to analyze the power relations, historical factors, and current material realities that produce states of reproductive health and disease.

  • Understand how histories and ongoing realities of eugenics, racial, sexual, gender, economic, and colonial domination and resistance impact reproductive health

  • Understand historical and contemporary research in the fields of public health, epidemiology, medicine, and health policy, reading appreciatively as well as critically

  • Assess public health policies and programs aimed at improving reproductive health from a reproductive justice perspective

  • Carry out an independent analysis of a contemporary problem related to reproductive health, survey existing public health, medical, and social science literature, and produce a research project

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Explores the contemporary science and politics of reproductive health in North America. Taught from a reproductive justice (RJ) perspective, a framework for analysis and action developed by Black women health organizers and scholars. Examines several aspects and applications of the reproductive justice framework itself; RJ approaches to pregnancy and birth; RJ as a diagnosis and refusal of eugenics; and RJ and abortion. Engages with case studies, scholarship, and theory from a variety of literatures relevant to public health: epidemiology, feminist and queer theory, critical race studies, gender/sexuality studies, activist and policy analyses, and historical and contemporary primary sources. Explores a variety of experiences and meanings of reproductive health and illness, as well as the relationships between health/disease and racism, poverty, sexism, hetero- and cis- normativity, colonization, incarceration, and environmental degradation.

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Topics

  • Eugenics and abortion.
  • Public health, epidemiology, feminist and queer theory, critical race studies, and policy analysis.

Skills

  • Use a reproductive justice framework to analyze power relations, historical factors, and material realities.
  • Conduct independent analysis of contemporary reproductive health problems and produce a research project.

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Recorded 2026-10-14

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