Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism - (Paperback)

From the Back Cover

This open access book engages with the concept of reproductive justice by exploring case studies of struggles around abortion in the context of rising anti-genderism, religious fundamentalism, and ethno-nationalism. Based on rich qualitative data offering in-depth analyses from different geographical, political and cultural contexts, the book explores how reproductive justice is understood, contested and given meaning. Chapters further develop the Black feminist concept of reproductive justice in a critical dialogue with postcolonial theory and explore the strength of transnational feminist practices. This book thus offers a fresh approach to the issue of abortion by engaging with contemporary political and cultural processes, and it expands the narrow notions of women's rights, particularly notions of property rights over bodies, towards an analysis of the political economy of social reproduction and how it affects bodies that can be pregnant.

This volume will be of interest to scholars with interests in reproductive justice, anti-gender politics, and religious fundamentalism.

About the Author

Diana Mulinari is Professor at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Her research and teaching focus on how gender and sexuality, class and race/ethnicity intersect along the social and political axes of personal lives, as well as on diverse forms of belonging and national and transnational institutions. She is co-editor of Pluralistic Struggles in Gender, Sexuality, and Coloniality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Marta Kolankiewicz is an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden. Her research includes studies of social justice and law as well as studies of racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. Her most recent publication is the book Anti-Muslim Racism on Trial. Muslims, the Swedish Judiciary and the Possibility of Justice (Routledge, 2019).

Rebecca Selberg is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at Lund University, and Associate Professor in Sociology at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her research is focused on gender, work, and organization, with a special focus on the political economy and management regimes of the public sector.