Troubling Reproduction: Parteras, Public Health Nurses, and the Politics of Birth Education
With dissertation scholar in Women's Studies, Lena McQuade
When: Thursday, May 1, 2008, 3 p.m.
Where: Women's Ctr., UCSB Campus, CA
Cost: Free
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Lectures
Description: Early twentieth century reproductive health and education efforts in the U.S.-Mexico border state of New Mexico were fraught with competing debates about acceptable and effective health practices. One of the most contentious debates involved the practice of parteras—Spanish speaking, empirically trained, New Mexican midwives—who delivered upwards of 30% of the babies born in the state. Lena McQuade, a dissertation scholar in Women's Studies, analyzes how reproductive health policies and education in New Mexico were inextricably linked, not only to ideologies of race, gender and national belonging, but also to their material effects evidenced in institutionalized racism, colonized health practices, and stratified reproductive health.
For more information about this event or to accommodate a disability, please contact Sharon Hoshida, acting director, or Beth Currans, program director, at the UCSB Women’s Center, (805) 893-3778, or by e mail at sharon.hoshida@sa.ucsb.edu or elizabeth.currans@sa.ucsb.edu. This event is free and open to the public, however, there is a charge for parking and there are parking permit dispensers in all of the parking lots. These dispensers do not give change, but they do take credit cards. There is ample parking available in the new parking structure, Parking Lot 22, directly across the walkway from the new Student Resource Building where the Women’s Center is located.
Phone: 805-893-3778
Event posted April 9, 2008
Last updated April 9, 2008
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