Rebecca Siddall

I am an interdisciplinary PhD student at Anglia Ruskin University. My research centres a Reproductive Justice methodological approach, and encompasses intersectional feminist, queer, and disability theory. Combining digital media and reproduction, my thesis explores how reproductive abuse (coercion around pregnancy, abortion, contraception, and sterilisation) is presented in contemporary media, and how it can be contextualised within wider rape culture. 

My broader research interests span reproduction on film, the history of women’s health, eugenics and population control policy, contraceptive development, abortion laws, and queer reproduction. I previously studied MSci and BA degrees at the History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge, with a specialism in the history and politics of reproduction.