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About Whitney
Arey's ethnographic study of abortion access and decision-making in North Carolina asks how interpersonal relationships impact the abortion experience within the politically contested abortion clinic space. Arey's overarching themes in writings include ethics of care, moral and biosocial experience, space, protection v. control, and violence. Arey has a Fellowship at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and has previously received an Emerging Scholars Research Fellowship from the Society for Family Planning and a Population Studies and Training Center NICHD T-32 Fellowship. Arey works with several abortion funds.
Contributions
How City Policymakers Can Address Verbal Harassment at Abortion Clinics
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Publications
Examines the language used by anti-abortion protesters that is directed at men entering abortion clinics. Argues that language about masculinity in anti-abortion protest speech both reifies tropes of patriarchal masculinity and simultaneously more contemporary gender ideologies about men's participation in reproduction, to shame men for their support of abortion.