Emma Day

The aim of the project is to expand the study of reproductive justice in the United States beyond procreation. It seeks to do so by analysing the scientific and technological mechanisms through which reproductive health became narrowly associated with childbearing in public health and politics, to the exclusion of people who could not or chose not to have children. Moreover, the study examines research, treatment, and activism around a range of non-procreative reproductive experiences - revealing the medical management of bodies beyond fertility and pregnancy. In so doing, this history is the first to approach the development of reproductive justice from a holistic perspective.