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The Reproductive Righteousness Project
The Reproductive Righteousness Project is a new initiative launched to explore the ways in which families, fertility and reproduction have become increasingly important discursive moral devices through which right wing populist leaders invoke the threat of national, social and cultural decline. From Trump’s “America first” to Kaczyński’s “there is only one Poland,” expressions of ethno-nationalism, right-wing populism, and authoritarianism are increasingly central to right-wing authoritarian regimes. This project brings together feminist scholars with wide-ranging expertise to collaboratively theorize expressions of what we call “reproductive righteousness.” The project is interdisciplinary, comparative, and global in scope. We take a critical approach that incorporates intersectional feminist, queer, and reproductive justice perspectives, and questions normative assumptions about reproduction, gender, religion, race and the state.
The Reproductive Righteousness Project is a collaborative research effort led by Risa Cromer (Purdue University), Sarah Franklin (University of Cambridge) and Lea Taragin-Zeller (Hebrew University and University of Cambridge).
Upcoming Events
Project Launch
Reproductive Righteousness and the Alt-Right State: An International Feminist Symposium
June 30, 2021, 15:00 - 17:00 (London / BST / GMT+1)
On June 30th, the Reproductive Righteousness project was launched with a symposium called “Reproductive Righteousness and the Alt-Right State: An International Feminist Symposium”, featuring feminist scholars from around the world who offered a comparative discussion of this important topic.
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Speakers
Risa Cromer and Lea Taragin-Zeller, “Reproductive Politics and the Rising Global Right: A Provocation”
Andrea Peto, “Attacks on Reproductive Rights ‘Through the Looking Glass’ ”
Sonia Correa, “Reproductive States’ Righteousness: Chartering Temporalities, Commonalities, Heterogeneities”
Akanksha Mehta, “On 'Love Jihad' and Hindu Nationalist women - Tracing Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Caste in the violence of a Right-Wing Movement”
Chair
Sarah Franklin
Register for the event here
https://reproductive-righteousness.eventbrite.co.uk
More Information
Symposium
July 1-2, 2021
Co-Conveners
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Risa Cromer, Purdue University | Sarah Franklin, University of Cambridge |
Lea Taragin-Zeller, Hebrew University |
Project Members
Gabriela Arguedas-Ramirez. Universidad de Costa Rica
Sophie Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University
Sonia Correa, Independent Scholar, Brazil
Manali Desai, University of Cambridge
Nilay Erten, University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne
Katie Gaddini, University College London
Faye Ginsburg, New York University
Marcia Inhorn, Yale University
Ben Kasstan, University of Bristol
Akanksha Mehta, Goldsmiths University
Maria Dulce Natividad, University of the Philippines
Andrea Peto, Central European University
Seda Saluk, University of Michigan
Marcin Smietana, University of Cambridge
Soraya Tremayne, University of Oxford