Reproductive rights as human rights : women of color and the fight for reproductive justice / Zakiya T Luna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luna, Zakiya T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women--Social conditions--United States.

Minority women.

African American women--Social conditions.

African American women.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"How did reproductive justice (defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent) become recognized as a human rights issue? In [this book] Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as the modern-day reproductive justice movement. Focusing on SisterSong, an intersectional reproductive justice organization, Luna shows how, and why, women of color mobilized around reproductive rights in the domestic arena. She examines their key role in re-framing reproductive rights as human rights, raising this set of issues as a priority in the United States, a country hostile to the concept of human rights at home"-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Restrictive domestication : human rights and US exceptionalism

Pushed to human rights : marginalization in the US women's movement

Pulled to human rights : engagement with global gatherings

Training the trainers amidst backlash

Marching toward human rights or reproductive justice?

Writing rights and responsibility

"They're all intertwined" : developing human rights consciousness

"Puppies and rainbows" or pragmatic politics? : organizations engaging with human rights

Conclusion: Making Utopias real

Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781479894369

1479894362

OCLC:

1156445049