Reproductive Justice
June 5, 2025 (2pm-5pm)
Amphitheater of MSH Paris Nord and by videoconference:
Chair: Heini Väisänen (Ined) & Céline Miani (Universität Bielefeld)
PROGRAMME
Introduction to Reproductive Justice
Zakiya Luna (Washington University, Saint Louis)
Zakiya Luna is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar at Washington University in Saint Louis. Her research, teaching and community work focus on social movements, reproduction, human rights and intersectionality. She has published multiple peer-reviewed articles and chapters and secured multiple grants including from the National Science Foundation. Her research on the reproductive justice movement includes the book Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice (NYU Press), which was included on the Oprah Daily list “The 12 Books You Need to Read Post the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade Smackdown.” She served as one of the three original founders and co-editors of the University of California Press Reproductive Justice book series. She is coeditor of Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis (Routledge) with Whitney Laster Pirtle. Her other writing includes contribution to Ms. and Refinery 29. Professor Luna earned a joint PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies from University of Michigan, where she also earned a Master of Social Work. She was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley affiliated with the Departments of Gender and Women's Studies, Sociology and the Center for the Study of Law and Society. She was hosted by the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law, which she accidentally helped co-found (long story). She was also the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Human Rights Postdoc at University of Wisconsin, a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow and member of inaugural cohort of Society of Family Planning Changemakers in Family Planning Fellows. In 2023, she was named the Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award by Sociologists for Women in Society. In 2023, she was also the inaugural recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Early Career Award for Contribution to Social Movements Scholarship.
Reproductive Justice in a (post)-colonial perspective: the case of the French overseas
Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow)
Maud Anne Bracke is a professor of modern European history at the University of Glasgow. She holds a doctorate from the EUI Florence, and has held visiting fellowships at Sciences Po Paris and the Universita' Federico II, Naples. She is the author of two monographs, two edited volumes and over twenty articles on the history of twentieth-century European feminism, translation and transnational activism, women and work, the “1968 years”, and Italian and French communism in the 1960s. She has been director of the Center for Gender History at the University of Glasgow and editor of the journal Gender & History, and is currently editor of the Journal of Modern European History. In 2021-2023, she coordinated the AHRC-funded project “Inventing Reproductive Rights: Sex, Bodies and Population in Europe and the World, 1945-1995”.
Reproductive Justice and the Global South(s)
Rishita Nandagiri (King's College London)
Dr Rishita Nandagiri is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. Her research focuses on gender and reproductive (in)justice in the Global Souths (broadly understood). Her recent work includes a critique of medico-legal approaches to self-managed abortion, examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on abortion access, and questioning how “voluntary” family planning is constructed. Rishita is a member of International Union for the Scientific Study of Population’s Scientific Panel on Abortion Research. She co-runs, with Joe Strong, the Abortion Book Club, and is one part of the collaborative writing/thinking project, Lucíta Nandarossa. Rishita has previously worked with feminist collectives and multilateral organisations, including during ICPD+20 where she co-chaired the Bali Global Youth Forum, and engaged with the ICPD+20 events and commissions.
Queer Reproductive Justice - Imaginary, Practice, Politics
Laura Mamo (Health Equity Institute)
Laura Mamo is the Health Equity Institute Professor of Public Health. Her work lies at the intersection of medical sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. Her research examines issues of knowledge and power, health and inequality, and sexuality, gender, race and social justice. Mamo is the author of the forthcoming book, Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Gendered Politics of Cancer Prevention (University of Chicago Press, 2023); Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience (Duke University Press, 2007); co-author of Living Green: Communities that Sustain (New Society Press, 2010); and co-editor of Biomedicalization Studies: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness and U.S. Biomedicine (Duke University Press, 2010). Laura Mamo is the co-founder of The Beyond Bullying Project, a multimedia school-based queer sexuality and gender project with Jessica Fields, Jen Gilbert and Nancy Lesko.