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Killing the black body: race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty

By Roberts , Dorothy E

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Volunteer Services for the Visually Handicapped
ISBN
067944226X, 0679758690, 9780804152594
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2127999 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
3 audiocassettes : analog, 15/16 ips, 4 track\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
African American women--Civil rights;Birth control

Description

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.

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