Centre LGS: Health and Masculinity Workshop

Author Meets Readers: Cynthia Daniels’ Exposing Men: the Science and Politics of Male Reproduction (OUP 2006)

CentreLGS are delighted to host Cynthia Daniels in conversation with Jonathan Ives, Emily Jackson, Julie McCandless, Therese Murphy, Sally Sheldon, Michael Thomson.

CYNTHIA R. DANIELS, Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1984). In addition to Exposing Men, she is also the author of At Women’s Expense: State Power and the Politics of Fetal Rights (Harvard University Press, 1993) and co-editor of Homework: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Paid Labor at Home (University of Illinois, 1989).

She has also authored: “Shifting Gender Paradigms: Johnson Controls, Fetal Rights and the Politics of Protectionism,” Policy Studies Review (Winter 91-92), “Fetal Interventions: Biomedical Issues in Maternal/Fetal Politics,” Medicine Unbound: The Human Body and the Limits of Medical Interventions, R.Blank and A. Bonnicksen, eds., Vol. III in Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy series. (Columbia University Press, 1993), “No Place Like Home,” Feminist Frameworks: Alternative Theoretical Accounts of the Relations Between Men and Women, 3rd edition, Jaggar & Rothenberg, eds. (McGraw Hill, 1992), “Gender Difference, Fetal Rights and the Politics of Protectionism,” and From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom, M.Fried, ed. (South End Press, 1990) ,

Professor Daniels has previously taught at Harvard University (Social Studies) and at the University of Hawaii (Women’s Studies and Political Science) and at Northeastern University (Political Science). She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the American Association of University Women and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.