Patrice Wright

Patrice Wright is a third year PhD Student in the Department of Sociology. Broadly, she is interested in cultural and intersectional examinations of motherhood and reproduction. She is particularly interested in stratified reproduction—where some women are encouraged to reproduce while others are discouraged and disadvantaged—and how women interpret their reproductive lives using dominant cultural ideologies. Her current work compares how African-American women across class interpret their reproductive healthcare experiences and their resulting strategies to navigate power imbalances embedded in the healthcare encounter.