Citing the Sisters: Raising the Visibility of Black Women in the Fight for Reproductive Justice

Dána-Ain Davis is director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where she is also on the faculty of the PhD Program in Anthropology.  Davis is most interested in how women "live" policy.  That is, how policy influences women's everyday lives. She has written about welfare policy, domestic violence policy and reproductive policy. Davis has also written extensively on feminist activist ethnography. She has just completed a manuscript, Pregnancy, Prematurity and Race: In the Afterlife of Slavery. Davis has been part of the reproductive freedom/rights and now justice movement for almost 3 decades.