Event: Reproductive Governance: Considerations from Poland and Ireland
Dates: Friday 29 April 2022
Time: 10:00-11:30
Venue: CHBO-316 (Campus Hub)
The Department of Gender and Sexualities will be organising a public lecture by Prof. Joanna Misthal on Friday 29 April from 10:00 till 11:30 at the Campus Hub CHBO-316. The public lecture is entitled 'Reproductive Governance: Considerations from Poland and Ireland'.
Abstract
Reproductive health and policies loom large in recent social and political debates across the globe. Through the lens of reproductive governance, this presentation will explore the ways in which health policies that differentially impact women are shaped by states’ agendas and their relationships to religious institutions, and other interests. I draw on my long-term research about gender politics in Poland and Ireland, and consider how the shifting state control over reproductive matters in the last few decades shaped health policies in these countries. I also consider the critical role of feminist organizations in reproductive rights debates, and the role of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights in promoting reproductive rights as human rights.
Bio:
Joanna Mishtal is a professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida, United States. She received her Ph.D. in cultural and medical anthropology in 2006 from the University of Colorado at Boulder. From 2006 to 2008, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University, New York, Mailman School of Public Health. Her research focuses on reproductive rights and policies in Poland, Ireland, and the European Union.