Christa Craven

Christa Craven’s writing on women’s health, reproductive justice, lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer politics, and midwifery activism has been published in The Feminist Wire, Citizens for Midwifery News, Feminist Studies, Feminist Formations, and American Anthropologist, among other venues. She is the author of Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement (Temple University Press, 2010) and a forthcoming textbook with Dána-Ain Davis, Thinking Through Feminist Ethnography: Methodologies, Challenges & Possibilities (Alta Mira Press in 2016). Craven and Davis also edited the collection Feminist Activist Ethnography: Counterpoints to Neoliberalism in North America (Lexington Books, 2013). Craven is currently working on a new project interviewing lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-, and queer families about pregnancy, adoption, and reproductive loss. Craven teaches at the College of Wooster in Ohio as Chair of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and Associate Professor of WGSS and Anthropology.