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About Nicole Bourbonnais

Nicole Bourbonnais is Associate Professor of International History and Politics and Co-Director of the Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Her research explores reproductive politics and practice from a transnational, historical perspective. Profile here: https://www.graduateinstitute....

Nicole Bourbonnais is Associate Professor of International History and Politics and Co-Director of the Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Her research explores reproductive politics and practice from a transnational, historical perspective. Profile here.

NBN Episodes hosted by Nicole:

Women's History March 4, 2023

Women's Medicine

Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70

Caroline Rusterholz

Hosted by Nicole Bourbonnais
Who built the twentieth century birth control movement? In Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70 (Manchester University Press 2020), Dr. Caroline Rusterholz highlights British female doctors' key contribution …
Women's History October 27, 2022

Just Get on the Pill

The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics

Krystale E. Littlejohn

Hosted by Nicole Bourbonnais
The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken for granted …
Women's History April 28, 2022

Building the Population Bomb

Emily Klancher Merchant

Hosted by Nicole Bourbonnais
Across the twentieth century, Earth's human population increased undeniably quickly, rising from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to 6.1 billion in 2000. As population grew, it also began to take …
Women's History February 16, 2022

Reproduction Reconceived

Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade

Sara Matthiesen

Hosted by Nicole Bourbonnais
We tend to associate Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that decriminalized abortion in 1973, with the choice not to have children. But Roe was equally transformative for …
Women's History December 13, 2021

On Infertile Ground

Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change

Jade S. Sasser

Hosted by Nicole Bourbonnais
Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”—and that the only way to avoid catastrophic climate change …
Women's History November 5, 2021

Reproductive Rights as Human Rights

Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice

Zakiya Luna

Hosted by Nicole Bourbonnais
How did reproductive justice—defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent—become recognized as a human rights issue? In Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of …