Rosalind Pollack Petchesky
Biographic Data
| ID | 264749 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosalind Pollack Petchesky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosalind Pollack |
| FAMILY NAME | Petchesky |
| SIGNATURE | PETCHESKY R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 367 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Abortion and Woman's Choice
Introduction
Introduction:Life and Debt Rosalind Petchesky (bio) and Meena Alexander (bio) Give back the life I gaveyou pay me my money downso there’s no questionI did it for love for anythingbut desireput a tarnished nickel in my dishso the guard will knowwhen he comeswith a bleeding chickentied to his wristwith a bitter promisethat we are not kinuncommitted forever. —Audre Lorde, “Generation III” What, precisely, does it mean to say that our sense of morali…
Roundtable
Laura Briggs, Faye Ginsburg, Elena R. Gutiérrez, Rosalind Petchesky, Rayna Rapp, Andrea Smith, Chikako Takeshita, Roundtable: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, Special Issue: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice (2013), pp. 102-125
Phantom Empire
Phantom Empire:A Feminist Reflection Ten Years After 9/11 Rosalind Petchesky (bio) On May 1, 2011, close to ten years after Al Qaeda suicide bombers had used jet airplanes to demolish three targets in the eastern United States—most unforgettably blowing the World Trade Center twin towers up in smoke—the United States, having at last managed through its intelligence sources to locate the Pakistani hill refuge where Osama bin Laden had been hiding,…
The language of "sexual minorities" and the politics of identity
In any highly contested political domain, language can be a potent force for change or an obstacle to understanding and coalition building across difference. This is surely the case in the global debates over sexuality and gender, where even those terms themselves have aroused heated conflicts. In this spirit, we want to challenge the uncritical use of the term “sexual minorities”, based on a number of historical and conceptual problems with whic…
Sexuality, Health and Human Rights
This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are changing quickly, as are traditional family structures and gender norms. What were once viewed as private matters have become public, and an array of new social movements – transgender, intersex, sex work…
The contested politics of sexual and reproductive health and rights
Some of the most important developments in the field of global health in recent years have been the rapid changes taking place in relation to the politics of sexual and reproductive health. Sexuali
Gender, health, and human rights in sites of political exclusion
In this paper, we investigate the intersections of gender, health and human rights in sites of political exclusion. We apply the political theory of Giorgio Agamben on 'states of exception', seeking to better understand how the recent 'war on terror', that seemingly knows no limits of time or space, is driving health outcomes in refugee and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. Reproductive health, militarization, and gender-based violence in…
Conflict and Crisis Settings
AcknowledgmentsMany thanks to Marge Berer, for unflagging support throughout the guest-editing process; Melissa Laurie, for her invaluable collaboration in earlier versions of this work; Leni Silverstein, for superb back-up in numerous ways; and all the excellent reviewers of manuscripts for this issue
Thinking Beyond ICPD+10
In this roundtable discussion, three long-time international activists in the field of reproductive and sexual rights discuss the challenges facing the feminist women's health movement ten years after the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Their conversation reflects on the nature of the global context in 1994–95 and how that context has changed a decade …
Rights of the body and perversions of war
The Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and its companion documents - those of the Vienna Conference on Human Rights (1993) and the International Conference on Population and Development (1994) - took important steps toward securing recognition for what we might call human rights of the body. These are affirmative rights relating to sexual expression, reproductive choice and access to health care and negative rights pertaining to freedom from viol…
Las torres fantasma
Las torres fantasma: reflexiones feministas sobre la batalla entre el capitalismo global y el terrorismo fundamentalista
Rights and Needs
t the March 1999 Preparatory Committee Meeting for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session's five-year review of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD+5), the pro-family newspaper Vivant! published a feature artiele, replete with statistical data and graphics, condemning the human rights-based approach to health.' Central to the article's attack was an argument embracing the discourse of basic as a framework…
Human rights, reproductive health and economic justice
(2000). Human rights, reproductive health and economic justice: Why they are indivisible. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 8, Reproductive rights, human rights and ethics, pp. 12-17
Negotiating reproductive rights
Introduction, Rosalind P. Petchesky not like our mothers - reproductive choice and the emergence of citizenship among Brazilian rural workers, domestic workers and urban housewives, Simone Grilo Diniz et al wit over men's - trade-offs and strategic accommodations in Egyptian women's reproductive lives, Aida Seif El Dawla et al between modernization and patriarchal revivalism - reproductive negotiations among women in peninsular Malaysia, Rita Raj…
Power and pleasure go together - Brazen proposals for a new millenium
RHM avait invité un éventail assez divers de personnes à présenter par 'ecrit leurs histoires et expériences personnelles concernant le mouvement international pour la santé, des femmes, et à exposer ce qu'elles pensaient des problèmes, des défis et des directions à suivre. Nous vous présentons ci-dessous une sélection des contributions reçues, qui donnent un aperçu de l'histoire du mouvement depuis les années 70, et montrent comment les chemins …
TWENTY-ONE The Body as Property
Direitos sexuais e reprodutivos
Neste artigo as autoras problematizam o conceito de direitos sexuais e reprodutivos, de maneira a retirá-Io do campo do pensamento individualista. Propõem, então, a sua releitura segundo a perspectiva dos direitos sociais, anunciando uma abordagem feminista desta questão
From population control to reproductive rights
The Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994 enshrines an almost-feminist vision of reproductive rights and gender equality in place of the old population control discourse but retains a mainstream model of development under which that vision cannot possibly be realised. This 'fault line' is highly dangerous for feminists, because it configures a gap between the politics of the body, sexuality and rep…
Fetal Images
Antiabortionists in both the United States and Britain have long applied the principle that a picture of a dead fetus is worth a thousand words. Chaste silhouettes of the form, or voyeuristic-necrophilic photographs of its remains, litter the background of any abortion talk. This chapter explores the overlapping boundaries between media spectacle and clinical experience when pregnancy becomes a moving picture. It attempts to understand the cultur…
Abortion
Beyond the Moral Status of the Fetus
Book reviewed in this article: Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom. By Rosalind P. Petchesky. Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood. By Kristin Luker
The Meaning of the Abortion Conflict
Antiabortion, Antifeminism, and the Rise of the New Right
Special Supplement
Fetal Images
Antiabortionists in both the United States and Britain have long applied the principle that a picture of a dead fetus is worth a thousand words. Chaste silhouettes of the form, or voyeuristic-necrophilic photographs of its remains, litter the background of any abortion talk. This chapter explores the overlapping boundaries between media spectacle and clinical experience when pregnancy becomes a moving picture. It attempts to understand the cultur…
Abortion and Woman's Choice
Negotiating reproductive rights
Introduction, Rosalind P. Petchesky not like our mothers - reproductive choice and the emergence of citizenship among Brazilian rural workers, domestic workers and urban housewives, Simone Grilo Diniz et al wit over men's - trade-offs and strategic accommodations in Egyptian women's reproductive lives, Aida Seif El Dawla et al between modernization and patriarchal revivalism - reproductive negotiations among women in peninsular Malaysia, Rita Raj…
Direitos sexuais e reprodutivos
Neste artigo as autoras problematizam o conceito de direitos sexuais e reprodutivos, de maneira a retirá-Io do campo do pensamento individualista. Propõem, então, a sua releitura segundo a perspectiva dos direitos sociais, anunciando uma abordagem feminista desta questão
Antiabortion, Antifeminism, and the Rise of the New Right
From population control to reproductive rights
The Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994 enshrines an almost-feminist vision of reproductive rights and gender equality in place of the old population control discourse but retains a mainstream model of development under which that vision cannot possibly be realised. This 'fault line' is highly dangerous for feminists, because it configures a gap between the politics of the body, sexuality and rep…
Reproductive Freedom
Human rights, reproductive health and economic justice
(2000). Human rights, reproductive health and economic justice: Why they are indivisible. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 8, Reproductive rights, human rights and ethics, pp. 12-17
The language of "sexual minorities" and the politics of identity
In any highly contested political domain, language can be a potent force for change or an obstacle to understanding and coalition building across difference. This is surely the case in the global debates over sexuality and gender, where even those terms themselves have aroused heated conflicts. In this spirit, we want to challenge the uncritical use of the term “sexual minorities”, based on a number of historical and conceptual problems with whic…
Conflict and Crisis Settings
AcknowledgmentsMany thanks to Marge Berer, for unflagging support throughout the guest-editing process; Melissa Laurie, for her invaluable collaboration in earlier versions of this work; Leni Silverstein, for superb back-up in numerous ways; and all the excellent reviewers of manuscripts for this issue
Rights and Needs
t the March 1999 Preparatory Committee Meeting for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session's five-year review of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD+5), the pro-family newspaper Vivant! published a feature artiele, replete with statistical data and graphics, condemning the human rights-based approach to health.' Central to the article's attack was an argument embracing the discourse of basic as a framework…
Thinking Beyond ICPD+10
In this roundtable discussion, three long-time international activists in the field of reproductive and sexual rights discuss the challenges facing the feminist women's health movement ten years after the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Their conversation reflects on the nature of the global context in 1994–95 and how that context has changed a decade …
Rights of the body and perversions of war
The Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and its companion documents - those of the Vienna Conference on Human Rights (1993) and the International Conference on Population and Development (1994) - took important steps toward securing recognition for what we might call human rights of the body. These are affirmative rights relating to sexual expression, reproductive choice and access to health care and negative rights pertaining to freedom from viol…
Introduction
Introduction:Life and Debt Rosalind Petchesky (bio) and Meena Alexander (bio) Give back the life I gaveyou pay me my money downso there’s no questionI did it for love for anythingbut desireput a tarnished nickel in my dishso the guard will knowwhen he comeswith a bleeding chickentied to his wristwith a bitter promisethat we are not kinuncommitted forever. —Audre Lorde, “Generation III” What, precisely, does it mean to say that our sense of morali…
Workers, Reproductive Hazards, and the Politics of Protection
Reproduction, Ethics, and Public Policy
After 6 months of public hearings and a controversial climate, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's rule governing federal financial participation in sterilization programs went into effect in the United States on March 8, 1979. The regulations attempt to formulate a government policy for some difficult ethical questions -- the meaning of "voluntary consent," the boundary between justifiable protection from abuse and unjustifiable p…
Workers, Reproductive Hazards, and the Politics of Protection
Special Supplement
Reproductive Freedom
Antiabortion, Antifeminism, and the Rise of the New Right
Beyond the Moral Status of the Fetus
Book reviewed in this article: Abortion and Woman's Choice: The State, Sexuality, and Reproductive Freedom. By Rosalind P. Petchesky. Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood. By Kristin Luker
The Meaning of the Abortion Conflict
Abortion
Fetal Images
Antiabortionists in both the United States and Britain have long applied the principle that a picture of a dead fetus is worth a thousand words. Chaste silhouettes of the form, or voyeuristic-necrophilic photographs of its remains, litter the background of any abortion talk. This chapter explores the overlapping boundaries between media spectacle and clinical experience when pregnancy becomes a moving picture. It attempts to understand the cultur…
From population control to reproductive rights
The Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development 1994 enshrines an almost-feminist vision of reproductive rights and gender equality in place of the old population control discourse but retains a mainstream model of development under which that vision cannot possibly be realised. This 'fault line' is highly dangerous for feminists, because it configures a gap between the politics of the body, sexuality and rep…
TWENTY-ONE The Body as Property
Direitos sexuais e reprodutivos
Neste artigo as autoras problematizam o conceito de direitos sexuais e reprodutivos, de maneira a retirá-Io do campo do pensamento individualista. Propõem, então, a sua releitura segundo a perspectiva dos direitos sociais, anunciando uma abordagem feminista desta questão
Power and pleasure go together - Brazen proposals for a new millenium
RHM avait invité un éventail assez divers de personnes à présenter par 'ecrit leurs histoires et expériences personnelles concernant le mouvement international pour la santé, des femmes, et à exposer ce qu'elles pensaient des problèmes, des défis et des directions à suivre. Nous vous présentons ci-dessous une sélection des contributions reçues, qui donnent un aperçu de l'histoire du mouvement depuis les années 70, et montrent comment les chemins …
Negotiating reproductive rights
Introduction, Rosalind P. Petchesky not like our mothers - reproductive choice and the emergence of citizenship among Brazilian rural workers, domestic workers and urban housewives, Simone Grilo Diniz et al wit over men's - trade-offs and strategic accommodations in Egyptian women's reproductive lives, Aida Seif El Dawla et al between modernization and patriarchal revivalism - reproductive negotiations among women in peninsular Malaysia, Rita Raj…
Rights and Needs
t the March 1999 Preparatory Committee Meeting for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session's five-year review of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD+5), the pro-family newspaper Vivant! published a feature artiele, replete with statistical data and graphics, condemning the human rights-based approach to health.' Central to the article's attack was an argument embracing the discourse of basic as a framework…
Human rights, reproductive health and economic justice
(2000). Human rights, reproductive health and economic justice: Why they are indivisible. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 8, Reproductive rights, human rights and ethics, pp. 12-17
Las torres fantasma
Las torres fantasma: reflexiones feministas sobre la batalla entre el capitalismo global y el terrorismo fundamentalista
Thinking Beyond ICPD+10
In this roundtable discussion, three long-time international activists in the field of reproductive and sexual rights discuss the challenges facing the feminist women's health movement ten years after the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Their conversation reflects on the nature of the global context in 1994–95 and how that context has changed a decade …
Rights of the body and perversions of war
The Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and its companion documents - those of the Vienna Conference on Human Rights (1993) and the International Conference on Population and Development (1994) - took important steps toward securing recognition for what we might call human rights of the body. These are affirmative rights relating to sexual expression, reproductive choice and access to health care and negative rights pertaining to freedom from viol…
Sexuality, Health and Human Rights
This new work surveys how rapid changes taking place at the start of the twenty-first century in social, cultural, political and economic domains impact on sexuality, health and human rights. The relationships between men, women and children are changing quickly, as are traditional family structures and gender norms. What were once viewed as private matters have become public, and an array of new social movements – transgender, intersex, sex work…
The contested politics of sexual and reproductive health and rights
Some of the most important developments in the field of global health in recent years have been the rapid changes taking place in relation to the politics of sexual and reproductive health. Sexuali
Gender, health, and human rights in sites of political exclusion
In this paper, we investigate the intersections of gender, health and human rights in sites of political exclusion. We apply the political theory of Giorgio Agamben on 'states of exception', seeking to better understand how the recent 'war on terror', that seemingly knows no limits of time or space, is driving health outcomes in refugee and Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps. Reproductive health, militarization, and gender-based violence in…
Conflict and Crisis Settings
AcknowledgmentsMany thanks to Marge Berer, for unflagging support throughout the guest-editing process; Melissa Laurie, for her invaluable collaboration in earlier versions of this work; Leni Silverstein, for superb back-up in numerous ways; and all the excellent reviewers of manuscripts for this issue
The language of "sexual minorities" and the politics of identity
In any highly contested political domain, language can be a potent force for change or an obstacle to understanding and coalition building across difference. This is surely the case in the global debates over sexuality and gender, where even those terms themselves have aroused heated conflicts. In this spirit, we want to challenge the uncritical use of the term “sexual minorities”, based on a number of historical and conceptual problems with whic…
Phantom Empire
Phantom Empire:A Feminist Reflection Ten Years After 9/11 Rosalind Petchesky (bio) On May 1, 2011, close to ten years after Al Qaeda suicide bombers had used jet airplanes to demolish three targets in the eastern United States—most unforgettably blowing the World Trade Center twin towers up in smoke—the United States, having at last managed through its intelligence sources to locate the Pakistani hill refuge where Osama bin Laden had been hiding,…
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