Ebook: Intimate justice : the black female body and the body politic
Author: Threadcraft Shatema
- Tags: African American women, Social conditions, African American women, Violence against, Sex crimes, United States, Feminism, United States, Equality, United States, United States, Race relations, African American women, Social conditions, African American women, Violence against, Equality, Feminism, Race relations, Sex crimes, United States
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: United States
- Language: English
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Black women's sexual and reproductive history in America is one marred by forced sterilizations and coerced reproduction. While reproductive rights activists and organizations, historians and legal scholars have all begun to grapple with this history and its meaning, political theorists have yet to do so. 'Intimate Justice' charts the long and still incomplete path to black female intimate freedom, challenging the Read more...
Abstract: Black women's sexual and reproductive history in America is one marred by forced sterilizations and coerced reproduction. While reproductive rights activists and organizations, historians and legal scholars have all begun to grapple with this history and its meaning, political theorists have yet to do so. 'Intimate Justice' charts the long and still incomplete path to black female intimate freedom, challenging the way in which we conceive of equality