عنوان

Killing the black body :

(Number (ISBN

067944226X

(Number (ISBN

9780679442264

Number

b413478

Title Proper

Killing the black body :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty /

First Statement of Responsibility

Dorothy Roberts

Edition Statement

First edition

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 373 pages ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-357) and index

Text of Note

Ch. 1. Reproduction in Bondage -- Ch. 2. The Dark Side of Birth Control -- Ch. 3. From Norplant to the Contraceptive Vaccine: The New Frontier of Population Control -- Ch. 4. Making Reproduction a Crime -- Ch. 5. The Welfare Debate: Who Pays for Procreation? -- Ch. 6. Race and the New Reproduction -- Ch. 7. The Meaning of Liberty

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Text of Note

From an intersection of charged vectors (race, gender, motherhood, abortion, welfare, adoption, and the law), Roberts addresses in her impassioned book such issues as: the notion of prenatal property imposed upon slave women by white masters; the unsavory association between birth control champion Margaret Sanger and the eugenics movement of the 1920s; the coercive sterilization of Black women (many of whom were unaware that they had undergone the procedure) under government welfare programs as late as the 1970s; the race and class implications of distributing risky, long-acting contraceptives, such as Norplant, through Medicaid; the rendering of reproduction as a crime of prosecuting women who expose their fetuses to drugs; the controversy over transracial adoption; the welfare debate (who should pay for reproduction?); and the promotion of the new birth technology (in vitro fertilization and egg donation) to serve infertile white couples

Text of Note

In Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts gives a powerful and authoritative account of the on-going assault - both figurative and literal - waged by the American government and our society on the reproductive rights of Black women

African American women-- Civil rights

Birth control-- United States

Race discrimination-- United States

Welfare recipients-- United States

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Roberts, Dorothy E.,1956-

Date of Transaction

20160712062352.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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