The wombs of women : race, capital, feminism /

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"THE WOMBS OF WOMEN, originally published in France in 2017 as Le Ventre des femmes, and translated into English by French and Africana studies scholar Kaiama Glover, is Françoise Vergès's examination of the 1970s scandal in Réunion upon the discovery that doctors had performed thousand...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vergès, Françoise, 1952- (Author)
Other Authors: Glover, Kaiama L., 1972- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:Theory in forms.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Birth control > Réunion > History > 20th century.
Birth control > France > History > 20th century.
Women > Réunion > Social conditions > 20th century.
Régulation des naissances > Réunion > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Régulation des naissances > France > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Réunion > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Birth control
Ethnic relations
Population policy
Women > Social conditions
France > Population policy.
Réunion > Population policy.
Réunion > Ethnic relations.
Réunion > Politique démographique.
Réunion > Relations interethniques.
France
Réunion
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The island of Doctor Moreau
  • The rhetoric of "impossible development" : dependency, repression, and anticolonial struggle
  • The wombs of Black women, capitalism, and the international division of labor
  • "The future is elsewhere"
  • French feminist blindness : race, coloniality, capitalism
  • Conclusion: Repoliticizing feminism.

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