Zakiya Luna’s rich study combines comprehensive discourse analysis of political rhetoric and archival documents with her own ethnographic experiences within the reproductive justice movement. This book is an entry point into this often-marginalized arena, presenting a unique perspective informed by years of participant observation and thorough research which has produced additional projects, attesting to Luna’s expertise in this field of study. As a woman of color, Luna’s work is symbolically significant, and her intersectional lens renders this study broadly applicable to scholars of law, sociology, and gender studies, to policymakers and activists, and, indeed, to all women, who the reproductive justice movement indirectly or directly impacts. In tracing the way that reproductive justice has been framed as a “human right,” Luna addresses the potential for the human rights discourse to deliver on its intrinsic promise to secure freedom and equity for all.
Articles by Djuna Hallsworth
Djuna Hallsworth has a PhD in Gender and Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney. Her research examines the representation of mothers in Danish state-funded films and television series through the lens of social and cultural policy, and is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan as a monograph to be published in late 2021. Djuna has coordinated and lectured in cultural policy at the University of Sydney and is intrigued by the ways that top-down governance filter into on-screen imagery, marginalizing and privileging particular perspectives and experiences. She has also written on mental illness in film and television and, motivated by her own struggles with mental illness, will continue to write in this sphere.