Valerie Hartouni

Associate Professor

University Distinguished Teacher

Education

Ph.D. in History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz (1987)

Research

Hartouni's research is situated at the intersection of cultural and feminist studies and examines the workings of medical, legal, scientific, and popular discourses on the contested terrains of such issues as abortion, infertility, gender identity, and AIDS. Her current research explores changing notions of reproductive freedom in the wake of the dismantaling of the welfare state.

Publications

Hartouni, Valerie, Cultural Conceptions: On Reproductive Technologies and the Remaking of Life. (University of Minnesota Press), 1997.

Hartouni, Valerie, "Roe vs. Wade," Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the United States, ed. Judith Bear. (Greenwood Press), 2000.

Hartouni, Valerie, "A Study in Reproductive Technologies" Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing, ed. Adele Clarke and Virginia Olesen. (Routledge: New York, 1999.

Hartouni, Valerie, "Reflections on Abortion Politics and Practices called 'person'" Fetal Positions/Feminist Practices, ed. Lynn Morgan and Meredith Michaels. (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia), 1999.