CFP for ASA Panel: Family Building, Financialization, & the Fight for Reproductive Justice

Dear All,


I’m in the process of assembling a panel called “Family Building,
Financialization, and the Fight for Reproductive Justice” for the 2019
American Studies Association meeting. I’m writing today in search of folks
working on related topics who might be interested in collaborating with me.


Below, I’m pasting a brief panel abstract to give you a sense of what I’m
imagining. (This is just a draft; as the panel takes shape, we can adjust
things accordingly.) I’ve also included some general information about the
ASA conference. If you’re interested in chatting further, please send me a
short description (~100 words) of your imagined paper by *Tues, Jan 15*,
and we can proceed from there. The ASA deadline is Fri, Feb 1, so we'll
have to move somewhat quickly.


Thanks,

Liz


*CFP: Family Building, Financialization, & the Fight for Reproductive
Justice*


This panel will explore how financialization has transformed
family-building practices and reproductive justice politics in the early
twenty-first century. Bringing together queer feminist studies, critical
ethnic studies, and transnational American studies, this panel will
illuminate the ways financial logics and mechanisms inform family law and
policy, reproductive healthcare and technologies, personal decisions about
parenthood and household formations, and collective demands for bodily and
family self-determination. While our immediate focus lies on the changing
form and function of American family life and on newly emerging modes of
familial survival and resistance, our panel aims to offer broader insights
into the role finance capital plays in the reproduction of economic
insecurities, heteropatriarchal ableisms, and white settler supremacy. In
my paper, I will examine predatory lending practices in the US fertility
industry. Other possible topics include:



   - speculation, biotechnologies, and profit-making in reproductive
   medicine;
   - the transnational circuits of eggs, sperm, and other reproductive
   materials;
   - risk management practices in pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing;
   - genetic testing, disability justice, and the costs of care work and
   health care;
   - the politics of value and exchange in adoption, donation, and
   surrogacy arrangements;
   - intimacy and alienation in the reproductive marketplace;
   - the links between family planning and financial planning services;
   - poverty, family separation, and the practice of fostering and
   fostering-to-adopt
   - legal kinship, inherited wealth, and intergenerational debt;
   - creative coparenting agreements and cooperative childcare communities;
   - reproductive justice organizing on local, national, and global scales.


*ASA Annual Meeting*

The 2019 ASA conference will take place in Honolulu, Hawai'i from Nov 7 to
10. The theme of the conference is “Build as We Fight
<https://theasa.net/annual-meeting/years-meeting>.” For general information
about the annual meeting, check out the ASA conference website
<https://theasa.net/annual-meeting/about-meeting>.

-- 
Liz Montegary
Associate Professor
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Stony Brook University
2114 Humanities Building
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355
[email protected]

Please check out my book Familiar Perversions: The Racial, Sexual, and
Economic Politics of LGBT Families
<https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/familiar-perversions/9780813591353>
(Rutgers, 2018).

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