Session 1
- No readings assigned
Session 2
- Bailey, Moya, and Whitney Peoples. “Towards a Black Feminist Health Science Studies.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 3, no. 2 (2017): 1–27.
Session 3
- Charles, Nicole. “HPV Vaccination and Affective Suspicions in Barbados.” Feminist Formations 30, no. 1 (2018): 46–70.
Session 4
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- When the Bough Breaks: A Documentary About Postpartum Depression. Directed by Jamielyn Lippman. Color, 93 min. 2017.
Listen to previous podcast episodes before class:
- Gender Race and Medicine Collection, Northeastern University Library
Session 5
- Longino, Helen E., and Evelynn M. Hammonds. “Conflicts and Tensions in the Feminist Study of Gender and Science.” Chapter 10 in Conflicts in Feminism. Edited by Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller. Routledge, 1990. ISBN: 9780415901789. [Preview with Google Books]
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Session 6
- Williams, Patricia. “Spirit-Murdering the Messenger: The Discourse of Fingerpointing as the Law’s Response to Racism.” (PDF - 1.9MB) Symposium: Excluded Voices: Realities in Law and Law Reform 42, no. 1 (1987): 127–57.
Session 7
- Washington, Harriet A. “A Notoriously Syphilis-Soaked Race: What Really Happened at Tuskegee?” Chapter 7 in Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Anchor, 2008. ISBN: 9780767915472. [Preview with Google Books]
- — — —. “Infection and Inequity: Illness as a Crime.” Chapter 13 in Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. Anchor, 2008. ISBN: 9780767915472. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 8
- No readings assigned
Session 9
- No readings assigned
Session 10
- Petry, Ann. Chapters 1–4 in The Street. Mariner Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780395901496. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 11
- Petry, Ann. Chapters 5–8 in The Street. Mariner Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780395901496. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 12
- Petry, Ann. Chapters 9–15 in The Street. Mariner Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780395901496. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 13
- Axelsen, Diana E. “Women as Victims of Medical Experimentation: J. Marion Sims’ Surgery on Slave Women, 1845–1850.” Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women 2, no. 2 (1985): 10–13.
- Owens, Deirdre Cooper. “Contested Relations: Slavery, Sex, and Medicine.” Chapter 3 in Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology. University of Georgia Press, 2018. ISBN: 9780820354750. [Preview with Google Books]
- Miles, Angel Love. “‘Strong Black Women’: African American Women with Disabilities, Intersecting Identities, and Inequality.” Gender & Society 33, no. 1 (2019): 41–63.
Session 14
- Roberts, Dorothy. “Part I: Believing in Race in the Genomic Age.” In Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. The New Press, 2012. ISBN: 9781595588340. [Preview with Google Books]
Session 15
- Pulido, Laura. “Flint, Environmental Racism, and Racial Capitalism.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 27, no. 3 (2016): 1–16.
View:
- “Social Justice: The Women of Cancer Alley” playlist. YouTube.
- “Greening the Ghetto - Majora Carter.” 2006. Ted.
Session 16
- Roberts, Dorothy. “The Dark Side of Birth Control.” Chapter 2 in Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Vintage, 1998. ISBN: 9780679758693. [Preview with Google Books]
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- Sins Invalid: An Unshamed Claim to Beauty in the Face of Invisibility. Directed by Patricia Berne. Color, 32 mins. 2013.
Session 17
- Green, Kai M., and Marquis Bey. “Where Black Feminist Thought and Trans* Feminism Meet: A Conversation.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 19, no. 4 (2017): 438–54.
Session 18
- No readings assigned
