Claire McKinney

Claire McKinney is assistant professor of Government and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the College of William & Mary. Her work has been published in Disability Studies Quarterly and Politics, Groups, & Identities. She is currently working on a book project that conceptualizes U.S. abortion politics in the context of women’s citizenship and the professionalization and politicization of medicine. The book argues that abortion politics in the United States have failed to be guided by feminist political judgment and articulates the need to decenter concerns of reproductive health in order to open new political possibilities for reproductive freedom.