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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:
November 19, 2024
Radical Acts
In Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), Dr George Severs draws on activist campaign literatu…
July 2, 2024
Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982
Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice.…
December 21, 2023
Documenting Death
Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania (University of California Press, 2020) is a gripping ethnographic account of …
March 4, 2023
Women's Medicine
Who built the twentieth century birth control movement? In Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, …
October 27, 2022
Just Get on the Pill
The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using …
April 28, 2022
Building the Population Bomb
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…
February 16, 2022
Reproduction Reconceived
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 …
December 13, 2021
On Infertile Ground
Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”—an…
November 5, 2021
Reproductive Rights as Human Rights
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 …