On June 23, the book Reproductive Justice: Intersectional Challenges in Public Health, organized by Elaine Brandão (IESC/UFRJ), Laura Lowenkron (IMS/UERJ), and Rosamaria Carneiro (PPGPECA/UNB), will be launched at the II Anthera Colloquium at 6:30 p.m., in Auditorium 11 (Block F, 1st floor, Maracanã Campus of UERJ). The printed version of Reproductive Justice is already available for purchase at the Virtual Bookstore of Editora Fiocruz, via the link: https://fiocruz.br/livro/justica-reprodutiva-desafios-interseccionais-na-saude-coletiva.
The digital version of the book can be accessed through the SciELO Books Portal at: https://books.scielo.org/id/jj4dt
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Reproductive Justice: Intersectional Challenges in Public Health. Editora Fiocruz, 2025.
Editors: Elaine Brandão, Laura Lowenkron, and Rosamaria Carneiro
Selected through Editora Fiocruz’s special call for collections on innovative themes, this work brings the powerful concept of reproductive justice into the field of health-related social sciences and humanities. Originating from Black feminist thought and political activism in North and Latin America, and aligned with the theoretical framework of intersectionality, the concept broadens the reproductive rights agenda—which has traditionally focused on individual autonomy—to include the ideal of social justice. While acknowledging its roots, the collection of nine chapters seeks to expand the scope of the concept beyond its original form and common usage by presenting new theoretical and empirical situations to which it can be applied. This includes, in addition to the social markers of class, race, and gender, other axes of oppression and themes such as ableism, Indigenous ethnicity, transmasculinity, international migration, removal of parental rights from vulnerable women, and lethal violence in marginalized territories.
In addition to the editors’ introduction, the book features a foreword by Lucia Xavier and Monica Sacramento of the NGO Criola, and a cover endorsement by Claudia Fonseca. The chapters bring together authors from different regions of Brazil and Chile who address reproductive issues from diverse themes, perspectives, and disciplines such as Public Health, Anthropology, and Sociology:
- “Politics of Bodies, (In)Justice and the Modern Colonial Gender System,” by Emanuelle Góes;
- “Mothers in Dispute: Dialogues Between Motherhood Studies, Reproductive Justice, and the Field of Care,” by Camila Fernandes;
- “Reproductive Justice and Maternal Death: The Rise and Fall of the Maternal Mortality Committees,” by Fabiana Santos Lucena and Carmen Simone Grilo Diniz;
- “Sanöma/Yanomami Mothers, the Drama of Infant Mortality, and Reproductive (In)Justice,” by Silvia Guimarães and Catherine Alès;
- “‘The Problem Is Cultural’: Stigmas, Behaviors, and Reproductive Surveillance of Haitian Women,” by Jaciane Milanezi;
- “Transmasculine Experiences and Challenges for Reproductive Justice,” by Anne Alencar Monteiro;
- “(Sur)Living in the Gears of the ‘System’: Motherhood, Disability, and the Politicization of Affects,” by Waleska Aureliano;
- “Between Women Who Remove and Those Who Are Removed: Reflections on the Judiciary’s Role and Reproductive Justice in Cases of Parental Rights Termination,” by Janaína Gomes;
- “Motherhood in Marginalized Territories: Violence, Fears, and Futures in Southern Santiago, Chile,” by Marjorie Murray and Constanza Tizzoni.