This project examines the “Reproduction Wars” in the United States after the constitutional right to abortion was overturned and left to the discretion of states in June 2022. Through a mixed methods approach combining archival and online research, team fieldwork, cultural analysis, and a quantitative survey, the project maps the respatialization of women's bodily rights, contested within progressive and reactionary politics of each state as well as within the U.S. Mexico Transborder region. Contextualized within the frameworks of legal consciousness studies and feminist geography, the project probes the Reproduction Wars through four specific lenses: 1) law as lived experience; 2) rhetorical imaginaries; 3) transborder mobilities; and 4) performative practices. As a collaboration with scholars in American Studies, Gender Studies, Social Movement Studies, Law, and Political Science, the project serves as a model for studying non-disciplinary, phenomenon-based research topics globally.

2023

2027