Reproductive justice : the politics of health care for Native American women / Barbara Gurr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gurr, Barbara Anne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Health and hygiene.

Women.

Gynecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first analysis of Native American women's reproductive healthcare and offers a sustained consideration of the movement for reproductive justice in the United States. The book examines the reproductive healthcare experiences on Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota-where Gurr herself lived for more than a year. Gurr paints an insightful portrait of the Indian Health Service (IHS)-the federal agency tasked with providing culturally appropriate, adequate healthcare to Native Americans-shedding much-needed light on Native American women's efforts to obtain prenatal care, access to contraception, abortion services, and access to care after sexual assault. Reproductive Justice goes beyond this local story to look more broadly at how race, gender, sex, sexuality, class, and nation inform the ways in which the government understands reproductive healthcare and organizes the delivery of this care. It reveals why the basic experience of reproductive healthcare for most Americans is so different-and better-than for Native American women in general, and women in reservation communities particularly. Finally, Gurr outlines the strengths that these communities can bring to the creation of their own reproductive justice, and considers the role of IHS in fostering these strengths as it moves forward in partnership with Native nations. Reproductive Justice offers a respectful and informed analysis of the stories Native American women have to tell about their bodies, their lives, and their communities.

Contents:

Introducing our relatives and introducing the story

Stories from Indian country

Whose rights? Whose justice? Reproductive oppression, reproductive justice, and the reproductive body

The ruling relations of reproductive healthcare

Producing the double discourse : the history and politics of Native-U.S. relations and imperialist medicine

To uphold the federal government's obligations . . . and to honor and protect : the double discourse of the Indian Health Service

Resistance and accommodation : negotiating prenatal care and childbirth

One in three : violence against Native women

Genocidal consequences : contraception, sterilization, and abortion in the fourth world context

Community knowledges, community capital, and cultural safety

Conclusions : Native women in the center.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8135-6470-0

OCLC:

896872916