Rajani Bhatia

 

Rajani Bhatia (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at the University of New York at Albany (SUNY).  Bhatia’s research interests lie in developing new approaches to feminist theorizations of reproduction and feminist science and technology studies. Topically, she has focused on issues that lie at the intersection of reproductive technologies, health, bioethics and biomedicine.  Through engagement as a scholar-activist within women’s health and reproductive justice movements,  Bhatia has contributed to feminist analysis of global population control, right-wing environmentalism, as well as coercive practices and unethical testing related to contraceptive and sterilization technologies.  Bhatia is the author of Gender before Birth: Sex Selection in a Transnational Context (University of Washington Press, 2018), and her articles have appeared in science, Technology, & Human Values, Catalyst: Feminist, Theory, Technoscience, and Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies.