The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an in-depth approach to issues of gender and reproductive justice from a wide variety of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to the range of reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism.

This collection provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the current issues surrounding gender and procreation. Topics addressed within these chapters include feminist history and reproductive rights, reproductive care, midwifery, obstetric violence, trans pregnancy, abortion, IVF, LGBTQ inclusive maternity care, obstetric racism, gender, and parenting from a diverse range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology, history, and midwifery.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an urgent and necessary overview of research in these areas, and is an essential resource for those studying these topics as well as practitioners.

Barbara Katz Rothman is Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York. She held the 2019 Fulbright-Saastamoinen Foundation Distinguished Chair in Health Sciences at the University of Eastern Finland. She has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society and has held visiting professorships and Fulbright awards in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Elizabeth Newnham is Associate Professor of Midwifery at Flinders University and Fellow of the Australian College of Midwives. Her clinical practice, teaching, and research have focused on seeking social justice solutions for humanizing birth, currently through the development of four research streams: ethics, technology, environment, and practice.

Rodante van der Waal is a PhD candidate in care ethics at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht and an independent midwife in Amsterdam. Her research focuses on obstetric violence and reproductive justice from feminist, postcolonial, and abolitionist perspectives. She is a founding member of the Critical Midwifery Studies Collective and the editor of Contractions, a political podcast on midwifery.

Christie Sillo is a sociologist. She holds a PhD in sociology from The Graduate Center, City University of New York; an MA in sociology from City College; and a BA in American studies from the University of Connecticut. Her doctoral research explored how interracial couples are being digitally constructed and consumed on Instagram