Ugo Felicia Edu
Biographic Data
| ID | 98333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ugo Felicia Edu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ugo Felicia |
| FAMILY NAME | Edu |
| SIGNATURE | EDU U F |
| AFFILIATIONS | African American Studies, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6154-0754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transforming medical anthropology
Despite the transformative contributions of Black feminist thought, medical anthropology often fails to recognize or center the works of Black feminist thinkers. We argue that Black feminist theory is critical for a study and praxis of new approaches to healing, health, medicine, illness, disability, and care. We can't continue to simply recognize that current systems are failing us; Black feminist theory moves us past recognition toward transfor…
Anthropological knowledge under redaction
Emerging from experimentations with form during our 2021 inaugural BFHSS Collaboratory, this article dabbles in redaction while examining logics of race and aesthetics embedded in how health is defined, measured, and depicted. I also examine logics structuring who is legible as a producer of knowledge, whose body is one from which knowledge is extracted, and who can be given access to population groups for study. Form in this article offers a ref…
Aesthetics Politics
This article explores the role of aesthetics in the construction and perception of what constitutes healthy reproduction and reproductive practices. I draw on women's reproductive experiences and navigations within a racialized gendered hierarchy. Processes and procedures related to the governance and measurements of reproduction and reproductive health shape these navigations. Focusing on Black women's experiences, I analyze the ways in which va…
When Doctors Don't Tie
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among black women, medical personnel, and activists in Brazil, this article highlights the implications of hierarchical medicalization. I show that the prioritization of particular forms of medicalized contraception for women located differentially in society enables different relations, political positions, and mobility. Denial of a tubal ligation in favor of modern reversible contraceptives, in a context of ine…
Exploring the Mental Health of Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
When Doctors Don't Tie
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among black women, medical personnel, and activists in Brazil, this article highlights the implications of hierarchical medicalization. I show that the prioritization of particular forms of medicalized contraception for women located differentially in society enables different relations, political positions, and mobility. Denial of a tubal ligation in favor of modern reversible contraceptives, in a context of ine…
Exploring the Mental Health of Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
Aesthetics Politics
This article explores the role of aesthetics in the construction and perception of what constitutes healthy reproduction and reproductive practices. I draw on women's reproductive experiences and navigations within a racialized gendered hierarchy. Processes and procedures related to the governance and measurements of reproduction and reproductive health shape these navigations. Focusing on Black women's experiences, I analyze the ways in which va…
Transforming medical anthropology
Despite the transformative contributions of Black feminist thought, medical anthropology often fails to recognize or center the works of Black feminist thinkers. We argue that Black feminist theory is critical for a study and praxis of new approaches to healing, health, medicine, illness, disability, and care. We can't continue to simply recognize that current systems are failing us; Black feminist theory moves us past recognition toward transfor…
Anthropological knowledge under redaction
Emerging from experimentations with form during our 2021 inaugural BFHSS Collaboratory, this article dabbles in redaction while examining logics of race and aesthetics embedded in how health is defined, measured, and depicted. I also examine logics structuring who is legible as a producer of knowledge, whose body is one from which knowledge is extracted, and who can be given access to population groups for study. Form in this article offers a ref…
Exploring the Mental Health of Black Men Who Have Sex with Men
When Doctors Don't Tie
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among black women, medical personnel, and activists in Brazil, this article highlights the implications of hierarchical medicalization. I show that the prioritization of particular forms of medicalized contraception for women located differentially in society enables different relations, political positions, and mobility. Denial of a tubal ligation in favor of modern reversible contraceptives, in a context of ine…
Aesthetics Politics
This article explores the role of aesthetics in the construction and perception of what constitutes healthy reproduction and reproductive practices. I draw on women's reproductive experiences and navigations within a racialized gendered hierarchy. Processes and procedures related to the governance and measurements of reproduction and reproductive health shape these navigations. Focusing on Black women's experiences, I analyze the ways in which va…
Transforming medical anthropology
Despite the transformative contributions of Black feminist thought, medical anthropology often fails to recognize or center the works of Black feminist thinkers. We argue that Black feminist theory is critical for a study and praxis of new approaches to healing, health, medicine, illness, disability, and care. We can't continue to simply recognize that current systems are failing us; Black feminist theory moves us past recognition toward transfor…
Anthropological knowledge under redaction
Emerging from experimentations with form during our 2021 inaugural BFHSS Collaboratory, this article dabbles in redaction while examining logics of race and aesthetics embedded in how health is defined, measured, and depicted. I also examine logics structuring who is legible as a producer of knowledge, whose body is one from which knowledge is extracted, and who can be given access to population groups for study. Form in this article offers a ref…
Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)