Killing the Black Body : Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty,9780679442264

Killing the Black Body : Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty

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ISBN13: 9780679442264
ISBN10: 067944226X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-10-01
Publisher(s): Pantheon
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Summary

This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black women's--especially poor black women's--control over their bodies' autonomy and their freedom to bear and raise children with respect and dignity in a society whose white mainstream is determined to demonize, even criminalize their lives. It gives its readers a cogent legal and historical argument for a radically new , and socially transformative, definition of "liberty" and "equality" for the American polity from a black feminist perspective.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION 3(19)
CHAPTER 1 REPRODUCTION IN BONDAGE
22(34)
CHAPTER 2 THE DARK SIDE OF BIRTH CONTROL
56(48)
CHAPTER 3 FROM NORPLANT TO THE CONTRACEPTIVE VACCINE: The New Frontier of Population Control
104(46)
CHAPTER 4 MAKING REPRODUCTION A CRIME
150(52)
CHAPTER 5 THE WELFARE DEBATE: Who Pays for Procreation?
202(44)
CHAPTER 6 RACE AND THE NEW REPRODUCTION
246(48)
CHAPTER 7 THE MEANING OF LIBERTY
294(19)
NOTES 313(45)
INDEX 358

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