Research

Whatcott, Jess. (September 2024). Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics. Duke University Press.

Cover art by Jacks Ashley McNamara

Danylevich, Theodora, Meghann O’Leary, and Jess Whatcott. 2024. “Comment from the Field: Critical Disability Studies at American Studies Association, 3-6 November 2022, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans.” Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 18: 2, 243-348.

Whatcott, Jess and Liat Ben-Moshe. 2021. “Abolishing the Broom Closets in Omelas: Feminist Disability Analysis of Crisis and Precarity.” Feminist Formations. 33:3 (Winter), 1-25.

Whatcott, Jess. 2021. “Aiding and Abetting the Unruly Past: Queer and Critical Disability Approaches to American Political Development.” Politics, Groups & Identities. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21565503.2021.1908372.

Whatcott, Jess. 2018. “No Selves to Consent: Women’s Prisons, Sterilization, and the Biopolitics of Informed Consent.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44:1, 131-153.

Whatcott, Jess. 2021. “Sexuality, Disability, and Madness in California’s Eugenics Era,” in The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality, edited by Russell Shuttleworth and Linda Mona. Routledge.

Whatcott, Jess. 2020. “’We Survived You’: Resisting Eugenicist Imaginaries Through Feminist Speculative Fiction,” in The Future is Unwritten: Representations of Political Resistance and Emancipation in Science Fiction, edited by Judith Grant and Sean Parsons, Lexington Books.