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Whitney Arey

UNC Center of Excellence Maternal and Child Health Postdoctoral Scholar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapter Member: North Carolina SSN
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About Whitney

Arey's ethnographic study of abortion access and decision-making in North Carolina asks how interpersonal relationships impact the abortion experience within the politically contested abortion clinic space. Arey's overarching themes in writings include ethics of care; moral and biosocial experience; space; protection v. control; and violence. Arey has a Fellowship at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women; and has previously received an Emerging Scholars Research Fellowship from the Society for Family Planning and a Population Studies and Training Center NICHD T-32 Fellowship. Arey works with several abortion funds.

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Contributions

How City Policymakers Can Address Verbal Harassment at Abortion Clinics

  • Amy Elizabeth Alterman
  • Rebecca S. Lentjes
Policy Recommendation,

In the News

Opinion: "Web Roundup: COVID-19, Racial Justice, Immigration, Climate Justice, Reproductive Justice, or “How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics"," Whitney Arey, Somatosphere, July 1, 2020.
Opinion: "Web Roundup: Measles, Vaccinations and Epidemics," Whitney Arey, Somatosphere, December 30, 2019.
Opinion: "Web Roundup: Abortion Bans, Heartbeat Bills, and the Future of Roe v. Wade," Whitney Arey, Somatosphere, June 28, 2019.
Opinion: "Web Roundup: CRISPR Babies and Bioethics," Whitney Arey, Somatosphere, December 31, 2018.
Opinion: "Web Roundup: Abortion Access," Whitney Arey, Somatosphere, July 1, 2018.

Publications

"Real Men Love Babies: Protest Speech and Masculinity at Abortion Clinics in the Southern United States" Norma international Journal for Masculinity Studies 15, no. 3 (2020): 205-220.

Examines the language used by anti-abortion protesters that is directed at men entering abortion clinics. Argues that language about masculinity in anti-abortion protest speech both reifies tropes of patriarchal masculinity and simultaneously more contemporary gender ideologies about men's participation in reproduction, to shame men for their support of abortion.