Legal Stories and the Promise of Problematizing Reproductive Rights

Legal Stories and the Promise of Problematizing Reproductive Rights
Pamela D. Bridgewater, 21 Law & Literature 402 (2009)

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Drawing on Rabinow’s Making PCR: A Story of Biotechnology, and on my earlier work on slavery, reproduction, and constitutional interpretation, this essay argues that supplementary narratives of the lived experiences of black women seeking reproductive rights, employed in the spirit of Rabinow’s “pedagogy of creativity, curiosity, and deviance,” make possible the transformation of available discourses on reproductive rights.