Fighting for control : power, reproductive care, and race in the US-Mexico borderlands / Lina-Maria Murillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murillo, Lina-Maria, author.

Series:

Justice, power, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Planned Parenthood Federation of America--Influence.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Catholic Church--Mexican-American Border Region--Influence.

Catholic Church.

Reproductive health services--Mexican-American Border Region.

Reproductive health services.

Reproductive rights--Mexican-American Border Region.

Reproductive rights.

Women--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025]

Summary:

"The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as well as the Catholic Church and Mexican American activists. Uncovering nearly one hundred years of struggle, Lina-Maria Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their communities. Faced with a family planning movement steeped in eugenic ideology, working-class Mexican-origin women strategically demanded additional health services and then formed their own clinics to provide care on their own terms. Along the way, they developed what Murillo calls reproductive care--quotidian acts of community solidarity--as activists organized for better housing, education, wages, as well as access to birth control, abortion, and more. Centering the agency of these women and communities, Murillo lays bare Mexican-origin women's long battle for human dignity and power in the borderlands as reproductive freedom in Texas once again hangs in the balance"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The past as prologue

Introduction: reproductive control and care in the US-Mexico borderlands

Making a white settler world in the twentieth-century borderlands

Fighting for control: race, religion, and the world white women made

Mexican-origin women and reproductive care

Se aguanta: borderland internationalism, overpopulation, and reproductive control

Chicanas' holistic vision for reproductive care

Battling Mexico's growth: population control, neoliberalism, and reproductive autonomy

Epilogue: our reproductive futures past.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-313) and index.

ISBN:

9781469682587

1469682583

9781469682594

1469682591

OCLC:

1429886724