ISBN:
9781478008866
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 162 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Theory in Forms
Uniform Title:
Ventre des femmes
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42096981/0904
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
;
Birth control History 20th century
;
Birth control History 20th century
;
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
Empfängnisverhütung
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Schwangerschaftsabbruch
;
Frau
;
Geburtenregelung
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Frankreich
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Réunion
;
Frankreich
;
Réunion
;
Frau
;
Geburtenregelung
;
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
;
Empfängnisverhütung
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in 1970, the doctors claimed to have been encouraged to perform these abortions by French politicians who sought to curtail reproduction on the island, even though abortion was illegal in France. In The Wombs of Women-first published in French and appearing here in English for the first time-Françoise Vergès traces the long history of colonial state intervention in black women's wombs during the slave trade and postslavery imperialism as well as in current birth control politics. She examines the women's liberation movement in France in the 1960s and 1970s, showing that by choosing to ignore the history of the racialization of women's wombs, French feminists inevitably ended up defending the rights of white women at the expense of women of color. Ultimately, Vergès demonstrates how the forced abortions on Reunion were manifestations of the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism
DOI:
10.1215/9781478008866
DOI:
10.1515/9781478008866
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