HDAS 4020 - Birth and Parenthood

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HDAS 2010 or Permission of Instructor
Students will analyze experiences of birth and parenthood both nationally and globally. Students will address the experiences of procreation and parenting historically and culturally using a constructionist perspective. Students will look at state and federal policies and the way regulation and surveillance have shaped procreation and parenting issues. Other course topics will include: procreative politics, medical and non-medical constructions of pregnancy, care giving, birth control, adoption, and parenthood. We will use primarily intersectional, and feminist perspectives.