Anti-Oppression

Gomez, A. M., Downey, M. M., Carpenter, E., Leedham, U., Begun, S., Craddock, J., & Ely, G. (2020). Advancing Reproductive Justice to Close the Health Gap: A Call to Action for Social Work. Social Work, 65(4), 358–367. https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/swaa034

Cadena, D. S., Chaudhri, A., & Scott, C. (2022). Contraceptive Care Using Reproductive Justice Principles: Beyond Access. American Journal of Public Health, 112(Sup5), S494–S499. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2022.306915

Radi, B. (2020). Reproductive injustice, trans rights, and eugenics. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 28(1), 1824318. https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2020.1824318

Kapadia, F. (2022). Reproductive Justice Matters: A Public Health of Consequence, August 2022. American Journal of Public Health, 112(8), 1107–1109. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2022.306959

The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person.

Each year, Planned Parenthood delivers vital sexual and reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people. Their mission is to ensure all people have access to the care and resources they need to make informed decisions about their bodies, their lives, and their futures.

SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization; our purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities. SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.

For generations, the personal lives of women around the world have been defined by the expectation that they will be solely wives and mothers. These assumptions were overturned in the twentieth century, and now women are redefining the place of marriage, childbirth, and sex in their lives. In this episode we meet the women, from the deserts of West Africa to Beijing, challenging society's expectations of them, and putting women's domestic stories on the global agenda.

HBO Documentary Films presents a 60-minute biographical profile of Gloria Steinem, an icon of the feminist movement for over 40 years. Produced by Emmy®-winning documentary filmmaker Peter Kunhardt and HBO's own Sheila Nevins, Gloria: In Her Own Words combines recent interviews that showcase Steinem's sharp sense of humor and compassion with archival footage and photographs from the 1950s to today. What emerges is a portrait of a crusader whose singular focus has been to fight for equal rights for women, both in the U.S. and around the world. Beginning with her career as an undercover reporter writing an exposé on the working conditions of Playboy Bunnies, the film chronicles how Gloria was transformed by hearing women's horrifying and humiliating experiences while covering a New York abortion hearing in 1969. Since then, she has been ubiquitous on the front lines of social activism, co-founding Ms. magazine in 1972, participating in countless women's rights marches, and making numerous media appearances. Despite decades of attacks and criticism from the Right, and a number of personal setbacks in recent years, Gloria today remains one of the most outspoken and visible symbols of the women's movement.

Due to ignorance, politics, and misused technologies, childbirth until very recently was often deadly to mother and child. This program presents a medical history of childbirth from ancient times to the present, contrasting methods and beliefs of the past with today's obstetrics. Along with commentary from obstetricians, medical historians, and evolutionary biologists, the program highlights dangers and advances in birthing through documentary clips, reenactments, archival material, computer graphics, and footage of several modern delivery techniques. Topics include caesarian section, fertility treatments, morning sickness, ultrasound, in utero surgical procedures, and the story of obstetrical forceps.

Martha Ballard was a midwife and mother living in the wilds of Maine during the chaotic decades following the American Revolution. Her diary is an up-close view of the poverty, disease, and day-to-day hardships of a struggling young nation. Some two hundred years later, in a quest to understand 18th-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha's massive, but cryptic, diary. A Midwife's Tale, from the PBS American Experience collection chronicles their interwoven stories: an 18th-century midwife and the 20th-century historian who brought her words to light. This film pieces together a picture of Ballard's life in Hallowell, Maine, the characters inhabiting her daily routine, and the role of women in the post-revolutionary world.