Advances and setbacks of sexual and reproductive rights
October 15, 2024 (02:00 pm-5:00 pm)
Centre des Colloques (Campus Condorcet)
Chair: Mireille Le Guen (UCLouvain) & Valentine Becquet (Ined)
PROGRAMME
Avancées, reculs et tours de passe-passe : une chronologie
Arlette Gautier (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
Arlette Gautier was a lecturer in demography at the Université de Paris X, a research fellow at the Institut de Recherches pour le Développement and then a professor of sociology at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale. She has worked on the role of gender in West Indian slavery, family policies in the French overseas departments, particularly in Guadeloupe, family planning policies in Mexico, civil and reproductive rights and gender-based violence worldwide. In short, she has empirically studied the historicity of relations between women and men, taking into account the interweaving of social relations and giving an important place to procreation, using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. With Marie-France Labrecque, she has published "Avec une touche d’équité et de genre. Les politiques publiques de développement et de santé au Yucatan", Québec, Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2013; "Genre et biopolitiques. L’enjeu de la liberté". Paris, l’Harmattan, 2012; "Les sœurs de Solitude. Les femmes esclaves aux Antilles françaises", Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010 [1985].
Droits reproductifs en France : avancées sélectives, contrôles subsistants
Lisa Carayon (USPN, Iris)
Lisa Carayon is a lecturer in law at the University of Sorbonne Paris Nord within the Iris laboratory (UMR 8156 CNRS - 723 Inserm - EHESS - USPN). She conducts research in health law, personal and family law and migration law. She approaches these themes by studying in particular the relationships of power and domination that run through the development and application of legal standards. More generally, she studies the impact of law on bodies. In this respect, she makes particular use of the conceptual tools of gender and intersectionality. Her thesis, available online and published in 2019 by IRJS, is entitled La catégorisation des corps, études sur l’humain avant la naissance et après la mort. She has also contributed to a number of collective works, in particular La loi et le genre, published by CNRS, in which she offers a gendered analysis of the legal norms governing contraception and abortion. She is responsible for the ‘Contraception’ section of the Dictionnaire permanent Santé bioéthique et biotechnologie, and co-edits an annual ‘Droit et genre’ column in the Recueil Dalloz. She is also involved in editing the new biannual journal Intersections, droit et genre
Global abortion policies and trends: progress and resistances
Ernestina Coast (LSE)
Ernestina Coast is Professor of Health and International Development in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics & Political Science. As a social scientist with training in demography and anthropology, she uses quantitative and qualitative methods in her research agenda focused on the intersections of health, gender and development with a particular focus on sexual and reproductive health. Professor Coast’s current research is focused on abortion, including: adolescent trajectories to abortion-related care, the work of abortion activists, and the relationships between abortion and well-being. Professor Coast has been Principal Investigator on 12 funded projects, published more than 70 articles, and supervised 19 PhD students to award. She currently serves on the boards of the Guttmacher Institute and the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity.
The Alignment of Fertility Goals and Behaviors: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
Sara Yeatman (University of Colorado Denver)
Dr. Sara Yeatman is Professor of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver. She is a social demographer and interdisciplinary researcher with training in the fields of sociology, demography, and public health. Her research expertise is in the areas of fertility and reproductive health, and her research seeks to understand the causes and consequences of the misalignment of fertility desires and behaviors. She co-created and led Tsogolo la Thanzi, a 9-wave panel study (2009-2015) of over 3,000 young adults in southern Malawi. Her current research projects examine reproductive healthcare access in the U.S. and the consequences of changes in access over time. Dr. Yeatman’s recent research has been published in Demography, Population and Development Review, Science Advances, and Health Affairs. Her research has been funded by the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Science Foundation, and William and Flora Hewlitt Foundation.