Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice

by Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, Elena R. GutiƩrrez, Loretta Ross

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Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.

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Undivided Rights details many reproductive justice organizations focused on African American, Latina, Asian / Pacific Island and Native American women. While the case-study format doesn't exactly make for a captivating read, the book is very interesting in bringing up the unique needs of women of color in the reproductive health movement. The middle-upper class white model of legal and safe abortion just doesn't cut it for women who face involuntary sterilization, lack of reproductive health education and services, unethical testing and use of long-acting birth control among other challenges.
great feminist resource on the history of reproductive rights struggles of women of colour. this should be required reading for all white feminists!

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Jael Silliman, born into the Baghdadi Jewish community of Calcutta, was educated at Wellesley College, Mass., Harvard University, University of Texas, Austin, and received her doctoral degree in international education at Columbia University. She has written extensively on gender and economic development, and women's movements in the developing show more world. Her recent publications include The Teak Almirah and Where Gods Reside: Sacred Places of Kolkata. show less
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Elena R. Gutierrez is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago
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Original publication date
2004
First words
"We're sick and tired of being sick and tired!"
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)They have provided it with new models for organizing, demonstrated ways to draw in broader constituencies and engage other social justice movements, and developed a holistic vision of reproductive justice which refuses to allow rights to be divided.
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Roberts, Dorothy; Smith, Andrea; Narayan, Uma; Henriquez, Silvia; Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack; Martin, Dawn Lundy (show all 11); Morgen, Sandra; Ruiz, Vicki; Hartmann, Betsy; Dasgupta, Shamita Das; Kaplan, Laura
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English

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Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History
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613.9Applied Science & TechnologyMedicine & healthPersonal health and FitnessBirth control, reproductive technology, sex hygiene, sexual techniques
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RG133.5 .U526MedicineGynecology and ObstetricsGynecology and obstetricsConception. Artificial insemination. Contraception
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English
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Paper, Ebook
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