NEW! From the Population and Development
Program
Ten Reasons Why
Militarism is Bad for Reproductive Freedom
Population and Development
Program
The Population and Development Program was
created in 1986 as an international companion program to
the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program. The Population
and Development Program seeks to provide students with a
multi-disciplinary framework within which to comprehend
population dynamics and reproductive rights issues internationally.
It examines the ways in which fertility, mortality, and
migration issues are shaped by colonialism, gender inequality,
the organization of economic production, and the international
division of labor. The program also explores the relationship
between population growth and the environment and offers
a critical assessment of the impact of international population
control policies and new contraceptive technologies on women
and children's health and lives.
The Population
and Development Program offers:
Courses on reproductive rights and population, and a bibliography of recommended
reading on these and other topics.
International and domestic student internships with the
Reproductive Rights Activist
Service Corps (RRASC).
Analysis and documentation of key population, development
and environmental issues, as well as the US prison industrial
complex, birth control, and abortion.
Lectures by leading feminist activists and scholars.
Activism opportunites including fighting the "greening
of hate," the scapegoating of immigrants for US environmental
problems.
The Different
Takes issue papers series, designed to bring alternative
feminist analysis to the media, policymakers, advocacy organizations
and activists.
The Population and Development Program is
the base for:
The Committee on Women, Population
and the Environment (CWPE), and produces CWPE's newsletter,
Political Environments.
The Quinacrine Action Network, keeping a watch on the use
of the chemical sterilant, quinacrine.
The
Population Curriculum Project, assessing and reforming
existing secondary school population curricula in the US.
Betsy Hartmann, Program Director, is a writer and activist
in the international women's health movement. She is the
author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs and co-author
of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village.
The Program's Coordinator, Ryn Gluckman, is a feminist and
youth activist.
For more information, contact:
Population and Development Program
Hampshire College/CLPP
Amherst, MA 01002-5001
PHONE: 413-559-5506
FAX: 413-559-6045
Email popdev@hampshire.edu
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