In this article, I analyze the birth stories of Black women living in the United States. Their birth
stories describe various forms of racism during medical encounters while they were …

Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This
cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or …

Background Infertility affects around 12% of couples, and this proportion has been gradually
increasing. In this context, the global assisted reproductive technologies (ART) market …

Feminist Ethnography, Second Edition, is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural introduction
to the methods, challenges, and possibilities of feminist ethnography. Dána-Ain Davis and …

This classic book, first published in 1992 and again in 2003, has inspired three generations
of childbearing people, birth activists and researchers, and birth practitioners—midwives …

This new edition of Sarah Franklin's classic monograph on the development of in vitro
fertilisation (IVF) includes two entirely new chapters reflecting on the relevance of the book's …

Scholarly interest in reproductive travel has increased in recent years, but travel within, to
and from the African continent has received much less attention. We reviewed the literature …

Black women bear the burden of a number of crises related to reproduction. Historically,
their reproduction has been governed in relation to the slave economy, and connected to …

Making Families: Transnational Surrogacy, Queer Kinship, and Reproductive Justice. We
were seeking to bring into direct conversation three theoretical frameworks that have each …

Over the last two decades, social scientists across disciplines have been researching how
value is extracted and governed in the reproductive bioeconomy, which broadly refers to the …