https://www.annaclairechurch.com/vita daily 0.75 2026-06-29 https://www.annaclairechurch.com/home-4 daily 1.0 2026-07-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b1576e7715976e6f11ca52/9c7c6847-00f9-4be4-913b-6ff3732b28c1/Screenshot+2026-10-06+at+9.22.40%E2%80%AFAM.png Home In this paper, I advance theoretical understandings of how socioeconomic advantage translates into health advantage to identify new directions for studying the production of inequality. Specifically, I identify multiple pathways through which socioeconomic advantage creates inequalities in health, such as excess and flexible financial resources and time, and how this translates into interactions with healthcare professionals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b1576e7715976e6f11ca52/c68d78ce-16db-41c9-9540-03d0c97ce1c1/Screenshot+2024-11-14+at+1.00.51%E2%80%AFPM.png Home In this paper, I (1) extend our understanding of how normalized forms of violence shape people's pregnancy and birth experiences and (2) demonstrate how obstetric violence unfolds through interpersonal interactions, the organization of labor in medicalized birth, and institutional policies and obstetric practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b1576e7715976e6f11ca52/cf16abcb-99d2-4d07-9110-edc023a4a4da/perspectives-image.png Home In this paper, I examine women's perceptions and experiences of solitary support from male partners during COVID-19 hospital visitor restrictions. I find that participants reported mixed feelings about birthing with a solitary support person. Marginalized women have greater concerns about birth outcomes and are more likely to feel afraid or isolated while others valued increased privacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b1576e7715976e6f11ca52/c70be7d3-ca7b-4681-aa64-6ece439f9c73/Screenshot+2026-10-02+at+3.04.48%E2%80%AFPM.png Home In this brief report, we develop an emerging framework of responsible fertility, defined as having children in a context and on a timeline that is socially, culturally, and biologically normative, to help explain population-level fertility change in the U.S. We reveal the circumstances in which participants want to have children and the constraints they face in doing so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b1576e7715976e6f11ca52/ada30bc3-10cf-44a8-adb4-4b323bc817ae/Screenshot+2026-07-01+at+9.49.41%E2%80%AFAM.png Home In this paper, we are interested in the interactions between gender and infertility-related stigma in producing negative health and social outcomes. We find that gendered infertility stigma is produced and reinforced through: 1) prescribed gender roles, 2) responsibility and blame, and 3) perceptions of infertility as a failure of the female body. Our participants were affected by this stigma, even when most of them had not experienced infertility. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b1576e7715976e6f11ca52/1732031343679-VXAL9SSOQB8U77081LUT/Screenshot%25252B2024-11-19%25252Bat%25252B10.47.33%252525E2%25252580%252525AFAM.jpg Home In this paper, we use interviews and focus group discussions with reproductive-age women to explore how they perceived and experienced interactions with healthcare providers (HCPs) around their fertility. We find that participants want more information about fertility from their HCPs even if not actively trying to become pregnant, which is not well accounted for in existing pregnancy options or fertility counseling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b1576e7715976e6f11ca52/1731607104331-3YGN8020W8RTG6GDYCW6/Screenshot%2B2024-11-14%2Bat%2B12.56.38%25E2%2580%25AFPM.jpg Home This scoping review synthesizes thirty years of research on the determinants of fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa to better understand what factors underlie men and women's stated fertility desires and how they weigh the costs and benefits of having (more) children. We demonstrate how both traditionally supportive and and contemporary disruptive forces simultaneously influence fertility desires in the region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/65b1576e7715976e6f11ca52/2540cacc-beb6-40b8-99ec-a7c627d80a67/IMG_7146.jpg