Our Bodies, Our Choices
Reproductive Justice and Social Embodiment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3945430 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Olney (0000-0002-8512-5181, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 137 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-43 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01417789241238721 |
| OpenAlex | W4401510164 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 61 |
Feminist scholars of reproductive justice argue for a broader model of politics organised around embodied experience. But to fully express the intersectional politics of reproductive justice, more attention must be given to the social function of embodiment-the ways that bodily markers create associative communities among strangers. This shared form of embodiment establishes connections that exceed the intimate relationship of a specific pregnancy. In particular, foetal embodiment manifests via communities with vested interest in the social meaning of life. These communities are affected, albeit indirectly, by reproductive choices and are therefore valid subjects of concern for reproductive justice. I develop the argument by focusing on disability, a specific form of embodiment where control over reproductive life is exercised not merely via state regulation of choice but also through social reproduction of normality. Engaging with foetal embodiment poses genuine risks-given popular arguments that link coercive regulations to the idea of 'foetal personhood'. But these risks must be faced if reproductive justice is to be a truly intersectional project
Abortion · Biology · Criminology · Economic Justice · Feminism · Human sexuality · Political science · Pregnancy · Reproductive justice · Social justice · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Disability Rights and Representation · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Disability Rights and Wrongs
Brilliant Imperfection
Understanding the social model of disability
The Disability Studies Reader
Social Work with Disabled People
Special Supplement
Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights
Reproductive Justice
The Politics of Disablement
The Concept of Oppression and the Development of a Social Theory of Disability
Keeping the Backdoor to Eugenics Ajar
Beyond Pro-Choice Versus Pro-Life
Disability and the meaning of reproductive liberty
Reproductive Justice
Disabled Women and Reproductive Rights
Malthus, gender and the demarcation of ‘dangerous’ bodies in 1996 US welfare reform
The Dangerous Individual('s) Mother
The Value of Choice and the Choice to Value
Alien” Sexuality
Impossible Decisions
Reproductive rights and disability rights through an intersectional analysis
The Embodiment of the Subject
Abjection and mourning in the struggle over fetal remains
The Social Model of Disability
The Social Model of Disability and the Disappearing Body
Compulsory Bodies
Reproductive Justice as Intersectional Feminist Activism
Fetal citizens? Birthright citizenship, reproductive futurism, and the "panic" over Chinese birth tourism in southern California
The expressivist objection to prenatal testing
Gender, health and theory
Imagining the Unborn in the Ecuadoran Andes
"The Inadequacy of "Choice
What is Reproductive Justice? How Women of Color Activists Are Redefining the Pro-Choice Paradigm
Transness as Debility
It makes it more real
Shouldering Death
Movement Intersectionality
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |