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Date Permissions Signed

5-18-2022

Date of Award

Spring 2022

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Department or Program Affiliation

Anthropology

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Anthropology

First Advisor

Fisher, Josh.

Second Advisor

Young, Kathleen Z.

Third Advisor

Pine, Judith M.S.

Abstract

Reproductive justice is of critical concern in the United States, especially since the onslaught of abortion bans in 2019, this ethnographic study explores abortion access and activism through a feminist participatory action research (FPAR) approach during my internship at the Feminist Majority Foundation in Los Angeles, California and clinic escort volunteer work with L.A. For Choice. Embodied feminism, here, takes the shape of a qualitative study of abortion access as well as the praxis of scholar-activism. Themes of opposing biopolitical values among feminist and anti-choice activism, narratives of feminist activism, and creative expression and reflection inform this thesis with further insight on mechanisms advocating for and barriers to reproductive healthcare access and hopeful collaborative visions of equitable realities to come.

Type

Text

Keywords

reproductive justice, abortion, feminism, art, creative, ethnography, biopolitics, activism, scholar-activism, healthcare

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

1319732949

Subject – LCSH

Reproductive rights--United States; Human reproduction--Law and legislation--United States; Birth control--Law and legislation--United States; Women's rights--United States; Pro-choice movement--United States; Pro-life movement--United States

Geographic Coverage

United States

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

masters theses

Language

English

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

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