Interdisciplinary Research Fellow Biography Image Karissa Patton is a historian of gender, sexuality, health, and activism. Her work explores local histories of reproductive and sexual healthcare, feminist health activism, and the politics of health and medicine. She uses a reproductive justice framework in my research to analyze local and regional landscapes of healthcare policy, on-the-ground health services, doctor-patient relationships, and activist health models. Her research program includes histories of feminist self-help and self-exam health services in the 1970s Canadian West and Indigenous women’s health and motherhood activism in 1970s Alberta, Canada. As an Interdisciplinary Research Fellow at CBSS, she is conducting a comparative study on the history of reproductive and sexual healthcare and activism in Canada and the UK from the late 1960s to the 1980s. Research History of reproductive and sexual health & healthcare in Canada and the UK History of self-examination and women’s health activism in 1970s Canada History of feminist health models History of contraception, abortion, eugenics History & reproductive justice Oral history methods & theory Teaching BSc Biomedical Sciences, Project Supervisor This article was published on 2024-09-24
