Reproductive Rights: Domestic and International Perspectives

Reproductive Rights: Domestic and International Perspectives is a Social Science class taught by Marlene Fried and Elizabeth Hartmann.

Course Description
This course will introduce students to a broad range of reproductive rights issues and the history of feminist activism surrounding them. Among the topics we will address are: the distinction between population control and birth control; abortion and maternal mortality; the pros and cons of contraceptive technologies; old and new eugenics; HIV/AIDS and reproductive and sexual health; new frameworks including reproductive justice; fundamentalist assaults on reproductive rights; and controversies in feminist organizing at the national and transnational levels.