The wombs of women : race, capital, feminism / Françoise Vergès ; translated by Kaiama Glover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vergès, Françoise, 1952- author.

Contributor:

Glover, Kaiama L., 1972- translator.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Theory in forms

Standardized Title:

Ventre des femmes. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Birth control--Réunion--History--20th century.

Birth control.

Birth control--France--History--20th century.

Women--Réunion--Social conditions--20th century.

Women.

Ethnic relations.

Population policy.

Social conditions.

History.

France--Population policy.

France.

Réunion--Population policy.

Réunion.

Réunion--Ethnic relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 162 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"Françoise Vergès examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Réunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The island of Doctor Moreau

The rhetoric of "impossible development" : dependency, repression, and anticolonial struggle

The wombs of Black women, capitalism, and the international division of labor

"The future is elsewhere"

French feminist blindness : race, coloniality, capitalism

Conclusion: Repoliticizing feminism.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Vergès, Françoise, 1952- Ventre des femmes. English. Wombs of women.

ISBN:

9781478008866

1478008865

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Restricted for use by site license.