Gender: New Works, New Questions — Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients

Join the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG) for Gender: New Works, New Questions, a timely book talk and conversation featuring Anna Kirkland’s new book, Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, this discussion will examine how civil rights frameworks shape—and often limit—patients’ access to equitable healthcare, with a particular focus on gender, sexuality, disability, and race.

In conversation with Patrick Grzanka and Rafe Neis, Kirkland will reflect on the book’s central arguments and the broader questions it raises for scholars of gender, law, history, and social justice. Moderated by IRWG Director Melynda Price, the panel will explore what new research on gender can teach us about the promises and pitfalls of legal remedies, and how interdisciplinary approaches open new ways of thinking about care, rights, and responsibility.


Speakers:
Anna Kirkland is the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients and is widely recognized for her scholarship at the intersection of health policy, law, and gender studies.

Patrick Grzanka is University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies; and Professor of Psychology (by courtesy) at the University of Michigan.

Rafe Neis is Professor in the Department of History and the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.