The Intersectional Politics of the Private

Session Submission Type: In-Person Full Paper Panel

Session Description

When are private needs public ones? When is it that some bodies are able get pregnant or do not, that some are able to access a bathroom and clean up after themselves, and only some are able to have their children cared for outside the home? These gaps remain, sadly, remain tied to the failure of the American state to satisfy what should be understood as basic needs. Despite decades of attention to these issues, and others like them, these papers grapple with sets of unmet needs that stubbornly remain private matters rather than public ones in the context of late capitalism and neoliberalism. We're looking to the past and future around how to get beyond these hurdles.

Sub Unit

• Division 31: Women, Gender, and Politics Research

Individual Presentations

• On the Struggle for Queer Reproductive Justice - Erin Mayo-Adam, Hunter College, CUNY

• The Political Economy of the Family - Priscilla Yamin, University of Oregon

• Fear and Investing in Public Things - Jennifer Gaboury, CUNY-Hunter College

Chair

• Jennifer Gaboury CUNY-Hunter College

Discussant

• Jennifer Gaboury CUNY-Hunter College