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Reproductive Rights as Human Rights : Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice /

"How did reproductive justice (defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent) become recognized as a human rights issue? In [this book] Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as...

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Main Author: Luna, Zakiya T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"How did reproductive justice (defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent) become recognized as a human rights issue? In [this book] Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as the modern-day reproductive justice movement. Focusing on SisterSong, an intersectional reproductive justice organization, Luna shows how, and why, women of color mobilized around reproductive rights in the domestic arena. She examines their key role in re-framing reproductive rights as human rights, raising this set of issues as a priority in the United States, a country hostile to the concept of human rights at home"--
Physical Description:1 online resource: illustrations ;
ISBN:9781479894369