By Z. Class Mobility without Relief against Gender and Race Injustices “We’re sick and tired of being sick and tired” Fannie Lou Hamer[1] Although many philosophers and thinkers believe that freedom and equality are the inborn rights bestowed by nature to…
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Week 3 Summer Accelerated Class M.S. Student Responses: Culture & Race
By Jenny An overwhelming theme taken from this week’s reading can be how race affects birth/child-rearing outcomes, as well as a group’s conception of reproductive justice. In the introduction chapter to her dissertation, “Birthing, Blackness, and the Body: Black Midwives…
Tagged with: All My Babies, and Motherhood, Culture, Latina Mothers, Legal Defense Fund, Mother Studies, Race, Reproductive justice
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Week 2 Summer Accelerated Class M.S. Student Responses: Reflecting on Loss as a M/Other and a Feminist Sociologist
By Jenny In her autobiographical piece, “Reflecting on Loss as a M/Other and a Feminist Sociologist”, Gayle Letherby cites her early academic work on the construction of motherhood: All women live their lives against a backdrop of personal and cultural…
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