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:

Holly Ashford, "Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982" (Routledge, 2022)

July 2, 2024

Development and Women's Reproductive Health in Ghana, 1920-1982

Holly Ashford

Between the 1920s and 1980s, the choices that Ghanaian women made regarding their reproductive health were defined by development policy and practice.…

Adrienne E. Strong, "Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania" (U California Press, 2020)

December 21, 2023

Documenting Death

Adrienne E. Strong

Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania (University of California Press, 2020) is a gripping ethnographic account of …

Caroline Rusterholz, "Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, 1920-70" (Manchester UP, 2021)

March 4, 2023

Women's Medicine

Caroline Rusterholz

Who built the twentieth century birth control movement? In Women's Medicine: Family Planning and British Female Doctors in Transnational Perspective, …

Krystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)

October 27, 2022

Just Get on the Pill

Krystale E. Littlejohn

The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using …

Emily Klancher Merchant, "Building the Population Bomb" (Oxford UP, 2021)

April 28, 2022

Building the Population Bomb

Emily Klancher Merchant

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…

Sara Matthiesen, "Reproduction Reconceived: Family Making and the Limits of Choice After Roe V. Wade" (U California Press, 2021)

February 16, 2022

Reproduction Reconceived

Sara Matthiesen

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 …

Jade S. Sasser, "On Infertile Ground: Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change" (NYU Press, 2018)

December 13, 2021

On Infertile Ground

Jade S. Sasser

Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”—an…

Zakiya Luna, "Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice" (NYU Press, 2020)

November 5, 2021

Reproductive Rights as Human Rights

Zakiya Luna

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 …