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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.
Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice.…
Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania (University of California Press, 2020) is a gripping ethnographic account of …
Who built the twentieth century birth control movement? In Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, …
The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using …
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…
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 …
Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”—an…
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 …