Birth and Parenthood

Catalog description

Students will address the experiences of procreation and parenting historically and culturally using a constructionist perspective. Students will look at state and federal policies and the way regulation and surveillance have shaped procreation and parenting issues. Other course topics will include: procreative politics, medical and non-medical constructions of pregnancy, caregiving, birth control, adoption, and parenthood. We will use primarily intersectional, and feminist perspectives.