Maud Bracke

Maud Bracke, Professor of Modern European History who studies European feminisms and reproductive rights. She traces how reproductive liberty and responsibilisation shaped French law and public debate in the 1960s-70s. She explores stratified reproduction, contraception and abortion laws, racialized policies in overseas departments, disability and Black feminist interventions, and tensions in feminist movements.

Maud Bracke, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Glasgow and author of Reproductive Rights in Modern France, explores how 1960s-70s reforms tied reproductive liberty to social responsibility. She discusses stratified reproduction, contraception and abortion laws, racialized policies in Guadeloupe and Martinique, disability groups' influence, and the limits of mainstream feminism's universality.