Natalie Lira

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — United States

Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences

5h-index245citations16works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Medical History and Research(9), Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes(5), Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices(3), Racial and Ethnic Identity Research(2), Metabolism and Genetic Disorders(2)

Publications16 total

Jess Whatcott, <i>Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics</i>
Social History of Medicine·2025
Review: <i>Oregon’s Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century</i>, by Kimberly Jensen
Pacific Historical Review·2025
Racialization and Reproduction: Asian Immigrants and California’s Twentieth-Century Eugenic Sterilization Program
Social Forces·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
Review: <i>From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920–1969</i>, by Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
California History·2022
Laboratory of Deficiency
2021
Laboratory of Deficiency
2021· 2 cited
“Low mentality” and “criminal tendencies”: Race, crime and disability in the politics of Latino men’s reproduction
Latino Studies·2021
Contraception
2020· 1 cited
Forced sterilization programs in California once harmed thousands – particularly Latinas
2018
Disproportionate Sterilization of Latinos Under California’s Eugenic Sterilization Program, 1920–1945
American Journal of Public Health·2018· 117 citedOpen Access
La esterilización forzada perjudicó a miles en California, especialmente a las mujeres latinas
2018
California’s Sterilization Survivors: An Estimate and Call for Redress
American Journal of Public Health·2016· 68 citedOpen Access
Barbara Gurr,<i>Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women</i>
Social History of Medicine·2015
"Of Low Grade Mexican Parentage:" Race, Gender, and Eugenic Sterilization in California, 1928-1952.
Deep Blue (University of Michigan)·2015Open Access
Mexican Americans and Eugenic Sterilization: Resisting Reproductive Injustice in California, 1920–1950
Aztlán A Journal of Chicano Studies·2014· 13 cited
Mexican Americans and Eugenic Sterilization
Aztlán A Journal of Chicano Studies·2014· 27 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Alexandra Minna Stern(5), Nicole L. Novak(4), Kate O’Connor(3), Sioḃán D. Harlow(2), Sharon L. R. Kardia(1), Sharon L. R. Kardia(1), Marie Kaniecki(1), Sarah Gao(1), Toni Ann Treviño(1), Nicole Novak(1)