Christa Craven

Department/Affiliation: Sociology & Anthropology; Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Phone: 330-263-2283
Office Address: 008 Kauke
Email: ccraven@wooster.edu
Web Site: Christa Craven

Degrees

• B.A., New College, Florida 1997
• M.A., American University 2000
• Ph.D., American University 2003

Awards and Professional Memberships

• American Anthropological Association, 1995-Present (AAA Governance Commission 2005-2007)
• Association for Feminist Anthropology, 1995-Present
• Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, 1999-Present
• Association for Queer Anthropology (formerly, Society of Lesbian & Gay Anthropologists), 1999-Present, (Co-Chair 2004-2005)
• National Women's Studies Association, 2005-Present
• Transnational Network on Women's Issues, 2008-Present

Publications

• Forthcoming (2013) Feminist Activist Ethnography: Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America. Edited collection, Christa Craven & Dána-Ain Davis, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Forthcoming (2013) Reproductive Rights in a Consumer Rights Era: Toward the Value of "Constructive" Critique. In Feminist Activist Ethnography: Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America, Christa Craven & Dána-Ain Davis, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Forthcoming Stories of Grief and Hope: Queer Experiences of Pregnancy Loss (with Elizabeth Peel). In Queering Maternity and Motherhood: Narrative and Theoretical Perspectives on Queer Conception, Birth and Parenting, Joani Mortenson, ed. Ontario: Demeter Press.
• 2011 Revisiting Feminist Ethnography: Methods and Activism at the Intersection of Neoliberal Policy in the U.S. (co-authored with Dána-Ain Davis). Feminist Formations (formerly National Women's Studies Association Journal) 23(2): 190-208, Summer 2011.
• 2010 "Downplaying Difference: Historical Accounts of African American Midwives and Contemporary Struggles for Midwifery" (co-authored with Mara Glatzel, Wooster Alumna '07). Feminist Studies, Summer 2010.
• 2010 Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.
• 2007 A "Consumer's Right" to Choose a Midwife: Shifting Meanings for Reproductive Rights Under Neoliberalism. American Anthropologist 109(4): 701-712.
• 2006 "Every Breath is Political, Every Woman's Life a Statement": Cross-Class Organizing for Midwifery in Virginia.  In Mainstreaming Midwifery: The Politics of Change, Robbie Davis-Floyd and Christina Barbara Johnson, eds., Pp. 311-346. New York: Routledge Press.
• 2005 Claiming Respectable American Motherhood: Homebirth Mothers, Medical Officials, and the State. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 19(2): 194-215.
• 2004 Making Our Voices Heard: Highlighting Midwifery in Health Care Policy Debates. Citizens for Midwifery News 9(1), Fall Edition.
• 2004 Lost Records, Lost Histories: Honoring the Midwives Who Were Prosecuted in the Early 1900s.  In Chapter 1 of From Calling to Courtroom: A Midwifery Survival Guide, Valerie Rooks, ed. Online publication.

Research Interests

• Women's Health & Reproductive Justice
• Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans/Queer Reproduction
• Midwifery Activism
• Feminist Ethnography & Activist Scholarship
• Feminist Pedagogy