This open access book engages with the concept of reproductive justice by exploring case
studies of struggles around abortion in the context of rising anti-genderism religious
fundamentalism and ethno-nationalism. Based on rich qualitative data offering in-depth
analyses from different geographical political and cultural contexts the book explores how
reproductive justice is understood contested and given meaning. Chapters further develop the
Black feminist concept of reproductive justice in a critical dialogue with postcolonial theory
and explore the strength of transnational feminist practices. This book thus offers a fresh
approach to the issue of abortion by engaging with contemporary political and cultural
processes and it expands the narrow notions of women's rights particularly notions of
property rights over bodies towards an analysis of the political economy of social
reproduction and how it affects bodies that can be pregnant. This volume will be of interest to
scholars with interests in reproductive justice anti-gender politics and religious
fundamentalism.
