Sexual and Reproductive Rights – Cambridge, MA

The Harvard Journal of Law and Gender presents its symposium, Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Barriers to Access, Roadmaps to Fulfillment, on Friday, March 4, 2011.

This symposium will feature current academic discourse concerning the important issue of sexual and reproductive rights analyzed through four different frameworks, corresponding to four panels: motherhood, teenage sexuality, abortion, and international human rights. Featured on the symposium panels will be 10 preeminent scholars, who will discuss crucial topics in the field including: (1) the feminization of HIV and poverty; (2) critical race studies and intersectionality; (3) gender-motivated violence and patriarchy; (4) the shape of sexual rights in the international human rights framework; and (5) the implications of a woman’s childbearing decision-making on assessing her qualifications as a mother.