Contributors
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Jasmine Begeske received her mfa with a concentration in photography and related media from Purdue University and her bfa from Indiana University concentrating in photography with a minor in art history. Currently she is the visual arts education program coordinator and a visiting lecturer in the School of Education at Indiana University Northwest in Gary.
Laura Briggs is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work deals with reproductive politics in a transnational context, focusing especially on questions of US empire and Latin America. Briggs is professor and chair of women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and the U.S. Imperial Project in Puerto Rico (2002); the coeditor with Diana Marre of International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children (2009); and, most recently, the author of Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (2012), winner of the James A. Rawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians.
Chao-Ju Chen is associate professor of law at National Taiwan University College of Law. She received her sjd and llm degrees from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as llm and llm degrees from National Taiwan University. She has written extensively on feminism and law. Her research combines theoretical analysis with historical insights to argue how legal patriarchy has been preserved through transformation and to challenge the myth of liberal feminism as well as legal Orientalism. Her articles have appeared, among other places, in the National Taiwan University Law Journal, the Taiwanese Journal of Political Science, Taiwan: A Radical Quarterly in Social Studies, Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, and the Asian Journal of Women’s Studies. Her research has been recognized by the Ta-You Wu Memorial [End Page 256] Award of the National Science Council in Taiwan. As an engaged feminist legal scholar, she also serves as the president of the Awakening Foundation, a major Taiwanese feminist nongovernmental organization.
Daisy Deomampo is an assistant professor of anthropology at Fordham University. Her current research focuses on the globalization of assisted reproductive technologies and its implications for gender relations, family formation, and social stratification.
Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz is an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa whose research resides at the nexus of rhetoric, gender, race, and justice. Her current book project maps the discursive terrain of contemporary reproductive politics in the United States, particularly as those politics center on technological innovation. Taking a range of cultural sites and practices as artifacts, her project queries the rhetorical dimensions of reproductive injustice and considers possibilities for redress and transformation. Fixmer-Oraiz’s work has appeared in Women’s Studies in Communication, the Rocky Mountain Communication Review, and the edited volume Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations into the Discourses of Reproduction. She teaches courses in rhetorical theory and criticism, gender and sexuality studies, social movements, and feminisms and is involved in a variety of community-based reproductive justice initiatives.
Faye Ginsburg is Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University, where she also is director of the Center for Media, Culture, and History. She is author or editor of four books, including the multiple-award-winnning book Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community (1998) and (with Rayna Rapp) Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction (1995).
Elena R. Gutiérrez is an associate professor in gender and women’s studies and Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She most recently received funding from the Migration and Health Research Program (pimsa) for a binational project to research the role of social networks in the reproductive health care received by Mexican immigrant women in Chicago. Her book publications include Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice (2004), with Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, and Loretta Ross, and Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican Origin Women’s Reproduction (2008). In addition to her academic appointments Gutiérrez has served on the boards of and worked as a consultant with access [End Page 257] Women’s Health Justice, the National Latina Health Organization, SisterSong, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive...
