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

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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Gurr, Barbara,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]
©2015
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Commonly Used Acronyms
  • Part I. Introductions: The Stories We Tell and Why
  • 1. Introducing Our Relatives and Introducing the Story
  • 2. Stories from Indian Country
  • 3. Whose Rights? Whose Justice?: Reproductive Oppression, Reproductive Justice, and the Reproductive Body
  • Part II. Tracing the Ruling Relations: Health Care, the Reproductive Body, and Native America
  • 4. The Ruling Relations of Reproductive Health Care
  • 5. Producing the Double Discourse: The History and Politics of Native-US Relations and Imperialist Medicine
  • 6. "To Uphold the Federal Government's Obligations . . . and to Honor and Protect": The Double Discourse of the Indian Health Service
  • Part III. Consequences of the Double Discourse: Native Women's Experiences with the Indian Health Service
  • 7. Resistance and Accommodation: Negotiating Prenatal Care and Childbirth
  • 8. One in Three: Violence against Native Women
  • 9. Genocidal Consequences: Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion in the Fourth-World Context
  • Part IV. Reproductive Justice for Native Women
  • 10. Community Knowledge, Community Capital, and Cultural Safety
  • 11. Conclusions: Native Women in the Center
  • Appendix A: Methods and Methodologies
  • Appendix B: A Brief Chronology of Federal Actions
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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