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Previous articleNext article FreeAbout the ContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreBahar Aldanmaz is a PhD student in sociology at Boston University with a focus on global health, development, and menstrual justice. Her dissertation research examines the experiences of local NGOs providing humanitarian response to women and LGBTQ+ survivors of the Kahramanmaraş earthquake. As a cofounder of the We Need to Talk association, Bahar is committed to advancing menstrual justice in Turkey. She writes on reproductive justice and has been published in Think Global Health, Health Policy, and Kadın/Woman 2000. Bahar also coauthored a children’s book titled Let’s Talk: Menstruation, which is dedicated to Turkish-speaking children and their caregivers.Chiara Bercu (she/her) is associate project director at Ibis Reproductive Health, where she manages both qualitative and quantitative research, primarily with abortion accompaniment groups and safe abortion hotlines in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. Chiara is committed to building shared power and decision making between researchers and activist partners to ensure that their needs and the needs of the individuals they serve are centered throughout the research process. She has recently published in Sexual Reproductive Health Matters, BMC’s Reproductive Health, and Frontiers in Global Women’s Health.Linda M. Blum is professor of sociology at Northeastern University. She studies the intersections of gender and race; disability and embodiment; and families, work, and inequality. She is the author of Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States (Boston: Beacon, 1999), and Raising Generation Rx: Mothering Kids with Invisible Disabilities in an Age of Inequality (New York: New York University Press, 2015); recent publications include “Gender and Disability Studies,” in Companion to Women’s and Gender Studies, ed. Nancy A. Naples (Oxford: Wiley, 2020); “Narratives of Care and Citizenship,” in New Narratives of Disability: Constructions, Clashes, and Controversies, ed. Sara E. Green and Donileen R. Loseke (Bingley: Emerald Insight, 2020); and “Women Organized against Sexual Harassment: A Grassroots Struggle for Title IX Enforcement,” with Ethel Mickey, Feminist Formations 30, no. 2 (2018): 175–201.Jennifer Jihye Chun is a labor sociologist whose research explores the interconnected worlds of gender, race, ethnicity, migration, and labor under global capitalism. She is associate professor in Asian American studies and chair of international development studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of the award-winning book Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States (Ithaca, NY: Cornell/ILR Press, 2009); the coeditor, with Rina Agarwala, of “Gendering Struggles against Informal and Precarious Work,” in Political Power and Social Theory (Bingley: Emerald Insight, 2019); and the coauthor, with Heidi Gottfried, of “Care Work in Transition: Transnational Circuits of Gender, Migration, and Care,” Critical Sociology 44, nos. 7/8 (2018): 997–1012.Carolina Cisternas is an abortion accompanier and has been a member of the collective Con Las Amigas y en la Casa (With friends and at home) since its founding in 2016. She has also been a member of Observadores de la Ley de Aborto (Observers of the abortion law) since its creation in 2017. She has contributed to various strategies to improve access to information and safe abortion since 2010, including starting a safe abortion information hotline in Chile. She is currently a member of the leadership team of the Red Compañera (Companion network), an umbrella network for abortion accompaniment groups across Latin America and the Caribbean. She is a sociologist with an MA in human development.Cynthia J. Cranford ([email protected]) is professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research analyzes inequalities of gender, labor, and migration, and collective efforts to resist them. She is author of the award-winning Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances (Ithaca, NY: ILR/Cornell University Press, 2020). Cranford is also the coauthor—with Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, and Leah F. Vosko—of Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2005). Her work has appeared in a range of journals, including Critical Sociology; Gender & Society; Gender, Work, and Organisation; Just Labour; Social Problems; Work, Employment, and Society; and in several edited volumes.Jennifer Denbow is associate professor of political science at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. She is a critical, interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on contemporary US reproductive law, politics, and technology. She is the author of Governed through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction (New York: New York University Press, 2015), and she is currently completing a book manuscript titled In the Name of Innovation: Neoliberalism, Biotechnology, and Reproductive Labor (under contract with Duke University Press).Danielle Drees ([email protected]) studies gender and labor in twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance and teaches at Boston University’s Kilachand Honors College. Recent publications include “Napping in Public: Feminist Practices of Care in Sleep Performance Art,” Frontiers 41, no. 3 (2020): 1–28, and “Burnout Dramaturgy: Revaluing Sleep in Caryl Churchill’s Sleepless Plays,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 35, no. 1 (2020): 45–60. Her book project, “Change the World Overnight: Sleep as Feminist Performance and Practice,” draws on Marxist feminism, performance studies, and disability studies to excavate the political and dramaturgical value of sleep in feminist theater from 1970 to the present.Martha Albertson Fineman is a Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University and the founding director of both the Feminism and Legal Theory Project and the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, she has received numerous awards for her interdisciplinary feminist scholarship on vulnerability, dependency, care, and the legal regulation of intimacy.Adam J. Greteman ([email protected]) is associate professor of art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the author of Sexualities and Genders in Education: Toward Queer Thriving (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). He is also the coauthor, with Kevin J. Burke, of On Being Liked: Queer Subjects and Religious Discourses (Gorham, ME: Myers Education Press, 2021) and The Pedagogies and Politics of Liking (New York: Routledge, 2017). His work has been published in Educational Theory, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, and Studies in Art Education.Frances S. Hasso ([email protected]) is professor of gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, with secondary appointments in the Departments of History and Sociology at Duke University in Durham, NC. Settlers established Durham on the lands of Indigenous Tutelo and Saponi–speaking peoples, among others, and it remains home to their descendants. Hasso’s scholarship focuses on gender and sexuality in the Arab world, settler-colonialism, and Western imperialism in its many manifestations. Her recent book is titled Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022) and is digitally available open access through a Creative Commons license.Yang-Sook Kim is assistant professor of sociology at Florida Atlantic University. Her research explores the nexus of gender, migration, labor, race, and ethnicity. Building on her dissertation project, which examines how unequally positioned groups of marginalized women workers navigate the intensifying precarity, Kim’s recent article “National Care Experts and Public Daughters: Navigating Publicly Funded Eldercare Jobs in South Korea and the United States,” prepublished online in Social Politics (2023), analyzes how workers contest the idealized care worker subject imposed on them and challenge their precarious working conditions.Katrina Kimport, PhD, is professor in the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health program at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research examines the (re)production of inequality in health and reproduction, with a topical focus on abortion, contraception, and pregnancy. She is the author, most recently, of No Real Choice: How Culture and Politics Matter for Reproductive Autonomy (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022).Sara Liao ([email protected]) is a media scholar and feminist at Penn State University, studying and teaching the intersection of gender politics, media cultures, digital platforms, the state-market complex, and the political and cultural implications thereof. Her work is dedicated to promoting gender equality and social justice, and she collaborates with academics, activists, and students across different disciplines and geographical locations to achieve these goals. She is currently working on theorizing and writing about misogynistic culture and digital feminist activism.Julia McReynolds-Pérez is associate professor of sociology at the College of Charleston. She has conducted research on feminist activism and abortion in Latin America, primarily Argentina, since 2012. Her research interests include self-managed abortion activist strategies, the visual rhetoric of the abortion rights movement, reproductive governance as it is experienced within the health-care system, the impact of feminist interventions on gendered norms in murga music ensembles, and activist knowledge production as a form of subversive epidemiology. Her work has previously been published in Signs as well as Gender & Society, Mobilization, and BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.María José Méndez ([email protected]) is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on organized violence, illicit economies, and feminist and decolonial thought and praxis. She is currently working on a book that examines the gendered political economy of transnational gang violence in Central America. Her peer-reviewed publications include “The River Told Me: Rethinking Intersectionality from the World of Berta Cáceres,” Capitalism Nature Socialism 29, no. 1 (2018): 1–18, and “The Violence Work of Transnational Gangs in Central America,” Third World Quarterly 40, no. 2 (2019): 373–88.Karen A. Morris ([email protected]) is associate professor in the Department of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a lesbian mother, caregiver, and cultural anthropologist interested in experimental, community-based collaborative research, pedagogy, and social justice work. Karen’s current work explores intergenerational connections between LGBTQ+ people, with a focus on kinship, aging, care, and activism. Her work has been published in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Anthropology News, Studies in Art Education, City and Society, and several edited volumes.Heidi Moseson (she/her) is a senior research scientist at Ibis Reproductive Health. Her past and current research includes epidemiological studies to improve methods and understanding in reproductive health research. Presently, Heidi’s research focuses on evaluating the safety and effectiveness of self-managed medication abortion in various contexts, measuring the impact of new abortion restrictions in the United States, developing a more accurate clinical and research screening tool for transgender and nonbinary people, testing strategies to reduce the underreporting of sensitive experiences in surveys, and understanding the family planning needs and experiences of transgender and gender-expansive people. Heidi has authored over forty-five peer-reviewed publications.Amber Jamilla Musser is professor of English at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, sexuality, queer theory, and aesthetics. She is the author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (New York: New York University Press, 2014), Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance (New York: New York University Press, 2018), and the forthcoming “Between Shadows and Noise: Situatedness, Sensation, and the Undisciplined.” She is the coeditor, with Kadji Amin and Roy Pérez, of ASAP’s special issue on “Queer Form” (2017) and, with Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Aren Aizura, Aimee Bahng, Mishuana Goeman, and Karma Chavez, of Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (New York: New York University Press, 2021).Jennifer Nazareno is assistant professor at the School of Public Health, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and at the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, Brown University. Nazareno received her PhD in medical sociology from the University of California, San Francisco; her dissertation examines the lived experiences of immigrant Filipino women who have emerged as owners of health and long-term service-related businesses in the United States. Recent publications include “Between Women of Color: The New Social Organization of Reproductive Labor,” Gender & Society, 36, no. 3 (2021): 342–67; “From Imperialism to Inpatient Care: Work Differences of Filipino and White Registered Nurses in the United States and Implications for COVID-19 through an Intersectional Lens,” Gender, Work, and Organization 28, no. 4 (2021):1426–46); and “Global Dynamics of Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Changing Trends, Ethnonational Variations, and Reconceptualizations,” International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research 25, no. 5 (2018): 780–800.Allison J. Pugh is professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. This article is drawn from research for The Last Human Job, her forthcoming book from Princeton University Press on the standardization of work that relies on relationship. Her research focuses on how economic trends—from job insecurity to automation to commodification to rising inequality—shape the way people find meaning, dignity, and connection. Her books include Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) and The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).Celeste Rapone received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007 and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Her work has been exhibited at Josh Lilley Gallery (London), Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York), Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery (Luxembourg), Roberts Projects (Los Angeles), Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston), Julius Caesar (Chicago), the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), the Georgia Museum of Art (Athens), and Monya Rowe Gallery (New York). Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Newcity, the Chicago Tribune, and the Georgia Review. She is a 2018 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She lives and works in Chicago.Emily Wilkinson Salamea is a public health professional, researcher, and activist. She specializes in sexual and reproductive health rights, maternal and infant health, and gender-based violence prevention. She has also been involved in teaching community health promoters, training facilitators of support groups for violence survivors, and facilitating comprehensive sex education workshops with teenagers and school staff. Emily is an abortion accompanier with the Feminist Abortion Accompaniment Network Las Comadres (The godmothers) in Ecuador. She is committed to building strategies for safe abortion access and advocating for reproductive justice, with a holistic approach to health.Tamara Lea Spira is associate professor of queer studies and American studies at Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies. A former University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Spira is informed by her history in feminist prison abolitionist movements. Her writings can be found in venues including Radical History Review, Boundary 2, Identities, Feminist Theory, Feminist Studies, and Feminist Formations. Her first book, Movements of Feeling: Feminist Radical Imaginations in Neoliberal Times, is under contract with the University of Washington Press. Spira’s second book, The Perils and Promises of Queering Family: Reproductive Justice in Homonormative Times, is under contract with the University of California Press.Sarah Walker (@stow_sarah) is a critical migration researcher. Her research is informed by her previous experience as a support worker with asylum seekers in the United Kingdom. After working on ClimateOfChange, a project examining the nexus between the climate crisis and migration, she is now working as a visiting postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Bologna funded by the Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Scholarship. Using the minor as a lens, her project interrogates the border work of race and childhood. Her work, employing creative qualitative research methods, examines the intersections of migration, race, gender, and citizenship.Nic M. Weststrate ([email protected]) is assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and member of the Center for Research on Health and Aging at the University of Illinois Chicago. Nic studies positive aging and intergenerational relationships within the LGBTQIA+ communities. Currently, he has been exploring the potential for intergenerational storytelling between LGBTQIA+ elders and youth to bolster their health, well-being, and psychosocial development while also sustaining the LGBTQIA+ communities’ rich cultures and histories. In Nic’s community-engaged research, he partners with the Senior Services Program at the Center on Halsted and Pride Action Tank of the AIDS Foundation Chicago.Jienian Zhang, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University–Bloomington. She is an ethnographer with interests in social psychology and sociology of education.Ruth Zurbriggen is professor of primary education and educational sciences, specializing in gender studies. She works in teacher education, in the area of comprehensive sexual education pedagogies. She is an activist and researcher with the Colectiva La Revuelta (Feminist collective the revolutionaries) in Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina, and with Socorristas en Red (Online first responders), a network of abortion accompaniment groups in Argentina. She is a member of the Red Compañera, an umbrella network for abortion accompaniment groups across Latin America and the Caribbean. She has accompanied abortions since 2010. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 49, Number 1Autumn 2023Complexities of Care and Caring Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725911 © 2023 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.