Reproducing Nation and the Social: Law's Regulation of Gender and Family | State Violence as Gender Violence
09.21.2023 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM | 691 Social Sciences Building (CRG Conference Room)
with Rose Cuison Villazor (Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers Law School; Fellow in Residence, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center at NYU School of Law (AY 2023-2024)) and Prabha Kotiswaran (Professor of Law and Social Justice, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London).
Laws of Social Reproduction - Prabha Kotiswaran
Feminists have long demonstrated the invisibility of women’s reproductive labor, performed in bearing and raising children, maintaining households, and socially sustaining male labor. Every wave of feminist struggle from the late nineteenth century onward has actively queried the inequalities that characterize women’s performance of such work, variously referred to as unpaid domestic and care work, domestic labor, or care work. Robust traditions of scholarship on women’s unpaid work animate various disciplines, often spilling into political struggles for adequate recognition of this work. As the pandemic has rendered visible once again the reproductive labor of women the world over, I offer an overview of social reproduction theory, feminist legal theorizations of reproductive labor, and how we might recuperate a rich tradition of theorizing on social reproduction to develop a materialist approach to law’s regulation of reproductive labor across the marriage -market spectrum with a view to social and economic justice.
Forbidden Love: Unearthing Racial Marriage Restrictions in Post-War Japan - Rose Cuison Villazor
Event co-sponsored by the Center for Law and Society(link is external).
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