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Gender and rasa/etnicity are the primary categories, which determine and maintain the rules of reproduction in a society. Reproduction is not just a natural biological process important for every society.
As Gerlinda Smausova reminds us, it is also a process, which contains more restrictions than prescriptions about who, when and how can and should reproduce. Cultural norms, social institutions and public discourses significantly influence both the social understanding of reproduction as well as determine the choices and experiences an individual can have.
This course will examine the intersections of reproduction, gender, race and ethnicity and explore in what ways, and with what consequences, are created social discourses of national community, reproductive rights and strategies, and last, but not least, discourses of pregnancy and birth.