Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement / / Jennifer Nelson.

While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus.Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive rights in t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: From Abortion to Reproductive Rights
  • 1 Acknowledgments “Let’s hear it from the real experts” Feminism and the Early Abortion Rights Movement
  • 2 “An act of valor for a woman need not take place inside of her” Black Women, Feminism, and Reproductive Rights
  • 3 “An instrument of genocide” The Black Nationalist Campaign against Birth Control
  • 4 “Abortions under community control” Feminism, Nationalism, and the Politics of Reproduction among New York City’s Young Lords
  • 5 Race, Class, and Sexuality: Reproductive Rights and the Campaign for an Inclusive Feminism
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author