Jennifer James, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences, and UCSF Bioethics, University of California, San Francisco

 Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Center for Race and Gender, Othering and Belonging Institute Diversity & Health Disparities Cluster

Hybrid:

  • In-person: 691 Social Sciences Building
  • Zoom Webinar | Register here: https://berkeley.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EQ9QV0eYRkiMMYloUjv6cQ

In this talk, I will briefly trace the history of family and reproductive control in the US and highlight the role mass incarceration plays in this eugenic legacy. I will describe the forced sterilizations that occurred inside California prisons and contextualize the atrocity of those procedures within the larger landscape of reproductive oppression and abuse occurring daily in prisons and jails.

 $0

 Register online

 bcsm@berkeley.edu

 Maxwell Vanderwarker, maxwellvan@berkeley.edu, 510-642-0813