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Intimate Justice : the Black Female Body and the Body Politic.

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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 ye...

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Main Author: Threadcraft, Shatema
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
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 > Abuse of.
Noires américaines > Conditions sociales.
Noires américaines > Violence envers.
Violence sexuelle > États-Unis.
Féminisme > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African American women > Social conditions
African American women > Violence against
Equality
Feminism
Race relations
Sex crimes
United States
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (226 pages)
ISBN:9780190251642
0190251646