GGRB28H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Environmental Racism, Reproductive Health, Eugenics
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Lecture 5 ggrb28: gender, sexuality and intersectionality. Debates about sex-selective abortion in east, south asian diasporas. Debates arise in indigenous community about blood quantum. Poor people, people of colour discouraged from having children, coercively sterilized. A single-issue approach to reproductive health and genetic technology would ignore the range of ways people experience them. Generations ahead: progressive advocacy organization focused on use of genetic and reproductive technologies made the intersections of race, gender and disability central to their work. Thinking intersectionally helps advocates pursue a more robust, inclusive definition of reproductive freedom and health, based on self-determination. Eugenics in america with forced sterilization video: Vasectomy forced upon due to unfit human traits (eugenics) Brown and knopp trace how gay men in seattle became the object of increasing study by public health officials and researchers in the mid 20th century. Interest emerged out of stigma (association of stis with sex workers, racialized people, gay men) Less privacy, more scrutiny of sexual behaviour.
