scholarly journals Review of On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women’s Rights in the Era of Climate Change, by Jade S. Sasser (New York University Press, 2018), and Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context, by Rajani Bhatia (University of

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole McCann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Sex Selection ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
New York University ◽  
Feminist Science Studies ◽  
Feminist Science ◽  
And Gender

This review evaluates the contributions of two recent transnational feminist science studies monographs to our understanding of complex entanglements of reproductive justice issues.

scholarly journals Review of Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice by Zakiya Luna (New York University Press)

Lateral ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Djuna Hallsworth
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
New York University ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Rights Discourse ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Human Rights Discourse

Zakiya Luna’s rich study combines comprehensive discourse analysis of political rhetoric and archival documents with her own ethnographic experiences within the reproductive justice movement. This book is an entry point into this often-marginalized arena, presenting a unique perspective informed by years of participant observation and thorough research which has produced additional projects, attesting to Luna’s expertise in this field of study. As a woman of color, Luna’s work is symbolically significant, and her intersectional lens renders this study broadly applicable to scholars of law, sociology, and gender studies, to policymakers and activists, and, indeed, to all women, who the reproductive justice movement indirectly or directly impacts. In tracing the way that reproductive justice has been framed as a “human right,” Luna addresses the potential for the human rights discourse to deliver on its intrinsic promise to secure freedom and equity for all.

The Emperor’s New Clothes

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Feminist Science Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Feminist Science ◽  
Women And Gender Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender

This chapter explores the tremendous possibilities of coalitions and collaboration between women's studies and women in science and engineering (WISE) initiatives. At this time, with few exceptions, WISE programs tend not to be centrally located in feminist science studies or women's studies programs and departments. Women and gender studies programs, in turn, have too few allies in science and engineering fields. Thus, while all three fields—WISE programs, feminist science studies, and women/gender/sexuality studies—can arguably be said to be thriving, there is little interaction between them. The chapter suggests that WISE programs can yield impressive results if they engaged more fully with feminist work in the social sciences and the humanities.

Troubling Figures

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Logan Natalie O'Laughlin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Environmental Toxicants ◽  
Environmental Racism ◽  
Feminist Science Studies ◽  
Feminist Science ◽  
Do So

This essay examines the figure of the pesticide-exposed intersex frog, a canary in the coal mine for public endocrinological health. Through feminist science studies and critical discourse analysis, I explore the fields that bring this figure into being (endocrinology, toxicology, and pest science) and the colonial and racial logics that shape these fields. In so doing, I attend to the multiple nonhuman actors shaping this figure, including the pesky weeds and insects who prompt pesticides’ very existence, “male” frogs who function as test subjects, and systemic environmental racism that disproportionately exposes people of color to environmental toxicants. I encourage careful examination of galvanizing environmental figures like this toxic intersex frog and I offer a method to do so.

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