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SUMMARY:Cambridge Reading Group on Reproduction - March 2025 - Dr Helen Ch
 arman
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DESCRIPTION:March's meeting will be led by Dr Helen Charman from The Facul
 ty of English. \n\nOur reading group provides an interdisciplinary space f
 or engaging discussions on reproduction in all its forms. All welcome\, po
 stgraduate and staff! You'll need to be based in Cambridge though as sessi
 ons are in person only. \n\nWe dive into texts that examine reproduction n
 ot only from biological and medical standpoints but also explore cultural\
 , social\, ethical\, and political dimensions. \n\nFor March the group wil
 l be discussing: \n\n*'The politics of miscarriage' (Radical Philosophy 20
 3\, December 2018\, pp. 62–72)*\n\nThis essay\, which was later expanded
  into the fifth chapter of Browne's monograph Pregnancy Without Birth: A F
 eminist Philosophy of Miscarriage (Bloomsbury\, 2023)\, considers the ways
  in which solidarity might be extended across miscarriage\, pregnancy and 
 abortion as sites of political experience and struggle. Browne's work aims
  to redress the surprising absence of miscarriage and stillbirth in femini
 st theorisations of reproductive politics\, as well as offer a philosophic
 al perspective on the experience of gestation itself. \n\nRooting her anal
 ysis in the rising criminalisation of miscarriage and stillbirth in the US
 \, Browne rejects a framework of resistance to this increasingly punitive 
 status quo that relies upon the category 'innocence'. Instead\, she advoca
 tes for a 'full-spectrum' understanding of all forms of gestational experi
 ence\, which centres pregnancy as an experience in its own right\, rather 
 than a process defined solely by its 'product'. \n\nSession starts with lu
 nch at 12.30\, group convenes at 1pm and finishes 2pm with close at 2.30pm
 \n\nFind out more\nhttps://www.repro.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-reading-gr
 oup-reproduction-march-2025
LOCATION:Room CG18 @ Student Services Centre - Old Cavendish East Wing
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