Fighting for our reproductive freedom: Past and present feminist struggles for abortion care

This workshop aims to stimulate international and interdisciplinary exchanges, and to open up new directions for research on abortion, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and reproductive justice more broadly. By bringing feminist, transnational and intersectional perspectives into conversation, experts will discuss the following questions:

What is the legacy of past feminist struggles for abortion care? What are the challenges pro-choice feminists currently face? Why and how is abortion currently criminalized? What do travelling for abortions and abortion pills tell us about reproductive violence and feminist resistance? What is the future of abortion politics?

This workshop gathers scholars from different disciplines (anthropology, sociology, history, gender studies, and geography), public health professionals and feminist activists. Various subjects connected to abortion politics will be covered: past and present feminist movements for abortion care in different contexts, the criminalization of abortion, transnational travel for abortions, gestational age timing politics, and self-managed abortion. This workshop will also be an opportunity for networking and collectively imagining a reproductive justice future for abortion politics.

This event is supported by the University of Fribourg and the Swiss National Science Foundation.

The event is free, but registration is required. Please register before the 31st of March (see below).