Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts has written and lectured extensively on the
interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues
concerning reproduction
and motherhood. She is the author of the
recently published Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child
Welfare (Basic Books, 2002)
and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction
and the Meaning of
Liberty (Pantheon, 1997), which received
the 1998 Myers Center
Award for the Study of Human Rights in North
America. She is also
the co-author of casebooks on constitutional
law and women and the
law. Roberts has published fifty articles and
essays in books and
scholarly journals, including Harvard Law
Review, Yale Law Journal,
University of Chicago Law Review, and Social
Text. Her
widely cited article, "Punishing drug addicts
who have babies: Women
of color, equality, and the right of privacy"
(Harvard Law Review,1991)
is included in a number of anthologies.
Prior to joining the Northwestern
faculty, Roberts was a professor
of law at Rutgers University, a visiting
professor at the University
of Pennsylvania and Stanford University, and a
fellow at Harvard
University's Program in Ethics and the
Professions. She serves as
a consultant to the Center for Women Policy
Studies in Washington,
D.C. and the Open Society Institute's Program
on Reproductive Health
and Rights, and as a member of the board of
directors of the Public
Interest Law Center of New Jersey, the
National Black Women's Health
Project, and the National Coalition for Child
Protection Reform.
In 2002-2003, Roberts was a Fulbright
scholar at the Centre for
Gender and Development Studies, University of
the West Indies, Trinidad-Tobago,
where she conducted research on family
planning policy and on gender,
sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean.
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Books:Killing the Black Body, December 1998
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