Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Throughout American history, our government and society at large have attempted to control the black woman's body--from the antebellum master's economic stake in the fertility of bonded women to the 1990's suggestion of laws to prevent women on welfare from having babies. Yale and Harvard...
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Throughout American history, our government and society at large have attempted to control the black woman's body--from the antebellum master's economic stake in the fertility of bonded women to the 1990's suggestion of laws to prevent women on welfare from having babies. Yale and Harvard graduate Dorothy Roberts' presents an impassioned indictment of this dehumanizing policy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679758693 (0679758690)
ASIN: 679758690
Publish date: December 29th 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Cultural,
African American,
Feminism,
Politics,
Gender,
Gender Studies,
Social Movements,
Social Justice,
Race
At times this book made me feel so angry I felt like my blood was literally boiling. I'm definitely interested in finding out what's changed - or more likely, what hasn't - in terms of reproductive freedoms for black women in the years since this book was published.
5 years ago
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