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Science, Politics, and Reproductive Rights: The Case of Ultrasound Technology

By Jael Silliman

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Science, politics and women's reproductive rights are not easily disentangled. They often collide to contain and expand women's rights and freedoms. It is this difficult terrain of science and politics that feminists must negotiate in their struggle to protect women's interests.

Jael Silliman is an assistant professor of Women's Studies at the University of Iowa. She is a founding member of the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment, an executive committee member of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, and co vice-chair of the Reproductive Health Technologies Project. She is the co-editor of Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and Development (South End Press, 1999) and Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization (South End Press, 2002), and is the author of Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women’s Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope (University Press of New England, 2001).