Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women

Gender and Women's Studies (Dalhousie University)

Good Eggs? Evaluating Consent Forms for Egg Donation

Patient Decision Making on the Disposition of Surplus Cryopreserved Embryos in Canada

Frozen in Perpetuity? ‘Abandoned Embryos’ in Canada

Of Research and Reproduction: Defining Embryo Research in Canada

Contesting Estimates of Cryopreserved Embryos in the United States

Social Egg Freezing: Risk, Benefits and Other Considerations

Notions of Harm in Canadian Law: Addressing Exposures to Household Chemicals as Reproductive Torts

Risky Business: Surrogacy, Egg Donation, and the Politics of Exploitation

Breaking the Ice: Young Feminist Scholars of Reproductive Politics Reflect on Egg Freezing

Rhetoric and Reality: ‘Protecting’ Women in Canadian Public Policy on Assisted Human Reproduction

The Devil We Know: The Implications of Bill C-38 for Assisted Human Reproduction in Canada

(Re)Writing ‘Feminism in Canada’: Wikipedia in the Feminist Classroom

The Current  - April 2016.mp3

Maritime Noon - IVF - October 2016.mp3

Alana Cattapan is an  Assistant Professor at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan.  A longtime feminist researcher and activist, she studies women’s participation in policy making, identifying links between the state, the commercialization of the body, biotechnologies, and reproductive labour.

She is also collaborating on research initiatives related to gender, law, and public policy including projects on gender and public engagement in Canada, altruism in clinical trial participation, and feminist approaches to the digital humanities.

As an educator, she is committed to critical pedagogy and the recognition of diverse learning styles. Her work on Wikipedia as a site of feminist pedagogy is the subject of articles in Feminist Teacher and York University’s Alumni magazine.

Public Policy

Reproductive Technologies 

Women's Health

Canadian Politics

Feminism & Gender Studies

Health Law & Policy

Bioethics and the Law

French

Professional website

Profile at NTE Impact Ethics

Sex-Selective Abortion is About More than Wishing for Male Children

The Trouble with Paying for Sperm

The Curious Case of Informed Consent for Egg Donation

Don’t Commercialize Women’s Bodies

Ontario Should Focus on Preventing Infertility Instead of Treating It

Why Ontario's IVF Funding Structure is Not the Answer

Limited Funding for IVF Does Not Go Far Enough

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