Clare M. Daniel

Reflects on the authors' experiences as scholars in higher education who collaborated to support the Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online digital guide. Discusses their motivations for joining the collective, the evolution of their work on the guide, successes and challenges faced, and the internal and external support they received.

Examines how colleges and universities in states with near-total abortion bans have responded since the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Focuses on six private institutions and analyzes their official responses, as well as the influence of student and employee activism. Argues that, as universities have become more business-oriented, reproductive justice has often been sidelined in favor of financial and risk concerns.

Examines the New Orleans Maternal Child Health Coalition, identifying barriers and facilitators affecting the Coalition’s effectiveness, as well as opportunities for improvement and broader involvement. Findings underscore the Coalition's role in tackling the maternal health crisis and offer general recommendations for similar coalitions seeking to promote health equity in their communities.

Examines gender representation in U.S. politics, highlighting that while women’s presence in elected offices is at a historic high, they remain under-represented compared to men. Findings show that the minority of U.S. adults believe that men are better political leaders than women, though this view is more common among conservatives and men. Underscores the need to address persistent gender biases and beliefs to achieve gender parity in political representation and ensure that women's issues are adequately addressed in policy-making.

Examines legislative discourse to understand the legislative challenges advocates face, the strategic separations and allyships they employ, and the implications for other states and reproductive health more broadly. Finds that legislators selectively use scientific evidence to hold onto rhetorical purity within the abortion debate, creating legal ambiguities that impact healthcare outcomes.

Provides a more comprehensive accounting of the cumulative harms experienced by women, poor people, people of color, and pregnant people in today's health and social welfare landscape.

Discusses the characteristics of a donor-funded internship program for undergraduate students interested in reproductive rights, health, and justice at Tulane University’s Newcomb Institute. Indicates that the program has successfully developed young leaders in a social justice movement, served underrepresented student groups, built trust with community partners, and created opportunities for multiple collaborations with those partners.

Analyzes two mainstream children’s films, Storks (2016), and The Boss Baby (2017), both of which answer the proverbial question, “Where do babies come from?” Argues that these films bypass the gendered labor of reproduction, forwarding instead a politics of neoliberal multiculturalism in which the entrepreneurial spirit of masculinized reproductive industries appears to facilitate a post-racial utopia.

Discusses sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are common and costly in the United States, and people who are Black, American Indian/ Alaskan Native, or Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander experience consistently higher rates of STIs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2021a; 2021b; 2019c). Elaborates furthermore, STI rates have been increasing across all racial/ethnic groups for the past several years at an alarming rate, particularly among those 15–24 years old (CDC, 2021b).

Shows how state abortion policies impact maternal death in the U.S.

Provides a crucial tool for feminist educators teaching about reproductive injustice, racism, gender-based oppression, and the power of feminist activism. Summarizes the film and offers a discussion of how it might be used as a tool of feminist pedagogy.

Illustrates that arguments made for sex education in the name of preventing teen pregnancy and for long-acting, reversible contraceptives in the name of preventing abortion undermine the goal of reproductive self-determination.  Reinforces notions that have long plagued advocacy for sex education and birth control in the United States—that certain people are illegitimate reproducers and that specific reproductive options are intolerable.

Examines associations between state-level variation in abortion-restricting policies in 2015 and total maternal mortality (TMM), maternal mortality (MM), and late maternal mortality (LMM) from 2015 to 2018 in the United States.

Analyzes the rebrand of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, demonstrating how institutions can use social change rhetoric to depoliticize that language and reaffirm neoliberal logics. 

Argues that teen pregnancy, specifically since the radical overhaul of welfare policy in 1996, was previously regarded as a social problem requiring public solutions but now is seen as an individual failure on the part of the teens involved.

Examines the social-media-based work of the National Campaign, showing the heavily disciplinary and moralizing functions of these strategies and their role within a new construction of social welfare. Argues that these tactics form a redefined notion of the social safety net based on a vision of citizens distributing vital, attractively packaged information among themselves via a privatized cybernetwork in order to maintain social well-being through the cultivation of proper sexual and reproductive behavior.

Documents the acquisition and processing of an important Native American pictorial archive, the Lee Marmon Pictorial Collection, and to elucidate some of its research and cultural value.

Examines representations of teen pregnancy in 16 and Pregnant. Argues that the show helps consolidate a shift in the dominant discourse of adolescent reproduction, from an issue primarily associated with societal "ills", such as welfare dependence and urban decay in the 1990s, to one marking the personal and moral perils of teen sexual activity in the first decades of the twenty-first century.

Reviews "Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption" by Laura Briggs