This special issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, edited by Rachel C. Lee, comes to you out of a symposium organized by UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women in May of 2012. Like the symposium, this special issue foregrounds scholarship at the intersections of science and technology studies, feminist and queer studies, and … Read more
Aamjiwnaag First Nation Health and Environment Committee Adoption Policy Reform Collaborative Alan Guttmacher Institute Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community Association de Madres de Plaza de Mayo AVAC: Global Advocacy for HIV Prevention Council for Responsible Genetics Empower Foundation Forward Together Genocide Watch Guatemala Forensic Anthropology Foundation International Socialist Organization Latin American Working … Read more
Aizura, Aren Z. “The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics.” The Transgender Studies Reader 2. Eds. Susan Stryker and Aren Z. Aizura. New York: Routledge, 2013. Arditti, Rita. Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina. Berkeley: University of … Read more
This special issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online is devoted to new scholarship at the intersection of science and technology studies (hereafter STS), race/postcolonial studies, and feminist and queer theory, with a special emphasis on three areas of research: Eugenic Legacies and Infrastructures of Reproduction, Cross-species and Cross-kingdom Enmeshments, and Governmentality and Activism in … Read more
“Jovita Rivera said a doctor told her she should have her ‘tubes tied’ because her children were a burden on the government …”—Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1975 “And this lady came, I don’t remember seeing her face, I just remember her voice telling me, ‘Mijita, you better sign those papers or your baby could … Read more
All clinical trials involve an implicit social contract whose redistributive politics are rarely questioned. A small population of research subjects (perhaps a few thousand at most) will be subjected to the unknown risks of consuming an investigational new drug so that these risks will become calculable for the population at large. Unknown risks for the … Read more
A women’s health advocate and a male doctor sit side-by-side. Together they are organizing a women’s clinic that will provide prenatal care and educate women about their reproductive health. Opposite them on the other side of a wide wooden table sits a nun in full habit. The doctor and the advocate watch attentively as the … Read more
Remains fall to the shallow sea floor. Silt and sand accumulate above. Centuries tick by, the sea dries, and a thick layer of sediment presses. Once live matter transforms and waits in the geological archive. Then, in 1860, long dormant oil is pulled into activity by North America’s first commercial oil well in Oil Springs, … Read more
In 2010, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health, released a 150-page report called the “Legal environments, human rights, and HIV responses among men who have sex with men and transgender people in Asia and the Pacific: An agenda for action.” While the data assembled … Read more
From the 1930s through the 1970s, first eugenics and then the Cold War made “overpopulation” a key word in defining the nature and cause of “Third World” poverty, as well as what the form of its solution—development—would be. Defining fertility as the problem simultaneously decentered blame—it was not colonialism or extractive world economic systems that … Read more
