Amy Krauss

Amy Krauss is a cultural anthropologist who currently teaches in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Global Health at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA. She was trained as an acompañante with Fondo MARIA in Mexico City and has conducted ethnographic research with feminist activists and people seeking safe abortion in Mexico for over a decade. Drawing on this participant-activist research, she is writing a book that shows how competing laws and policies around abortion affect women’s bodily experiences and the creative ways feminist activists build networks of advocacy and care.Her publications include The Ephemeral Politics of Feminist Accompaniment Networks in Mexico City and Luisa’s Ghosts: Haunted Legality and Collective Expressions of Pain.