Gender and Feminist Studies Research Panel
21 March 2024, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
For this event we are pleased to welcome Carolina Topini, who works on the history of the global women's health movement, with a focus on feminist international meetings and campaigns against population control policies.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Gender and Feminisms Research Network
Location
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IAS ForumG17, ground floor, South WingUCL, Gower St, LondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
We’re delighted to announce another gender and feminist studies research panel this term, which is an opportunity for colleagues at UCL to exchange work-in-progress ideas.
Lunchtime panels take the form of two fifteen-minute, informal talks with half an hour for discussion. To present an aspect of your current research-in-progress please email ucl.gfrn@ucl.ac.uk
For this event we are pleased to welcome Carolina Topini, who works on the history of the global women's health movement, with a focus on feminist international meetings and campaigns against population control policies.
Her paper will focus on the International Tribunal on Reproductive Rights, a landmark event in global feminist history, held in Amsterdam in 1984 and organised by the International Campaign for Abortion, Sterilisation and Contraception (ICASC), a grassroots organisation founded in London in 1975. The Tribunal brought together over 400 women from 58 different countries under the slogan 'Population Control - No. Women Decide', and it marked a shift from a predominantly white European movement focused solely on the right to abortion and contraception to a global movement that also addressed issues of interlocking oppressions, population control, sterilisation, maternal mortality, forced heterosexuality and disability.