Information Power and Reproductive Health

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Information Power and Reproductive Health</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)> encourages readers to explore the inextricable intersection of reproductive health information and power. Rooted in a framework of reproductive justice it explores the ways in which power plays a central role in how reproductive health information is created controlled withheld and shared. Deeply entrenched ideologies about which bodies are deserving or undeserving of reproductive care which facets of reproductive life are worthy of research which issues are taboo or frequently dismissed and how to control bodies considered unruly all affect what health information is easily accessible or perhaps hidden from those who need it. Legislative bureaucratic medical-scientific economic and familial systems and structures shape reproductive health information and framing information production and consumption as a social act can help us to trace these structural and ideological forces in the reproductive health landscape and locate transgressive sites of information sharing that speak back to power. Chapters address the continued and more-urgent-than-ever interest in reproductive health feminism(s) womanism critical theory and praxis in librarianship and information studies.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Gina Schlesselman-Tarango</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)> (she/her) is Associate Professor and Science Librarian at Grinnell College. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator who writes about critical information literacy in academic libraries and the gender and racial dynamics at play in information work more broadly. </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Alanna Aiko Moore</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)> is the Librarian for Sociology Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California San Diego. Alanna holds a bachelor of arts in Sociology/Anthropology and Gender Studies from Lewis and Clark College in Portland OR and a master's of Library and Information Science from Dominican University. Alanna has published book chapters and articles on queer parenting cross cultural mentoring emotional labor activism and issues affecting women of color librarians. </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)>Renée A. Rau</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(64 64 64 1)> is an Information Services Librarian at University of Southern California's Norris Medical Library and the liaison to the Keck School of Medicine. She earned a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree at San José State University (SJSU) in 2020. In 2017 she earned an MA in 20th-century United States history specializing in women's and gender history from Washington State University (WSU). </span></p><p></p>