Global reproductive justice: a new agenda for feminist economics?

Nandagiri, Rishita ORCID: 0000-0003-4424-769X, Senderowicz, Leigh and Sigle-Rushton, Wendy ORCID: 0000-0002-8450-960X (2025) Global reproductive justice: a new agenda for feminist economics? Feminist Economics. ISSN 1354-5701

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Abstract

This special issue focuses on reproductive justice (RJ) as a framework for feminist research and activism. The introduction provides an overview of when and why the RJ framework was developed, outlines the ways it challenged and extended the way reproductive rights were understood and approached by feminist scholars and activists, and articulaties its productive potential. RJ’s relevance for identifying and responding to the breadth of rights violations taking place across the globe today can only be grasped with a firm understanding of its scope and foundational concepts, such as intersectionality. Its expanded scope, conceptual complexity, and epistemological orientation make RJ incompatible with the neoclassical rational-choice paradigm, but points of resonance with other frameworks provide possibilities for its integration and contribution both to knowledge and to the development of a feminist methodology in economics. The contributions to this special issue represent some of the first efforts to take forward this important project.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 IAFFE
Divisions:	International Development Gender Studies
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences
JEL classification:	I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare and Poverty > I30 - General B - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches > B54 - Feminist Economics J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Date Deposited:	04 Feb 2025 14:51
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 09:06
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127175

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