Reproductive Justice : The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women /

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In Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first analysis of Native American women's reproductive healthcare and offers a sustained consideration of the movement for reproductive justice in the United States. The book examines the reproductive healthcare experiences on Pine...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gurr, Barbara Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States > Indian Health Service
Reproductive health.
Indians of North America > Health and hygiene.
Indian women > Health and hygiene
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Femmes > Sante et hygiene.
Droits genesiques.
Indiens d'Amerique > Amerique du Nord.
Sante de la reproduction > États-Unis.
Indiennes d'Amerique > Sante et hygiene > États-Unis.
Women's Health
Reproductive Rights
Indians, North American
Healthcare Disparities
Reproductive Health Services > organization & administration
Women > Health and hygiene.
Reproductive rights.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > United States.
Reproductive health > United States.
Indian women > Health and hygiene > United States.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introducing our relatives and introducing the story
  • Stories from Indian country
  • Whose rights? Whose justice? Reproductive oppression, reproductive justice, and the reproductive body
  • The ruling relations of reproductive healthcare
  • Producing the double discourse : the history and politics of Native-U.S. relations and imperialist medicine
  • To uphold the federal government's obligations ... and to honor and protect : the double discourse of the Indian Health Service
  • Resistance and accommodation : negotiating prenatal care and childbirth
  • One in three : violence against Native women
  • Genocidal consequences : contraception, sterilization, and abortion in the fourth world context
  • Community knowledges, community capital, and cultural safety
  • Conclusions : Native women in the center.

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