Reproductive justice : the politics of health care for Native American women

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

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...

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Main Author: Gurr, Barbara Anne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
United States > Indian Health Service
Indian women > Health and hygiene > United States.
Reproductive health > United States.
Indians of North America > Health and hygiene > United States.
Indians of North America.
Reproductive rights.
Women > Health and hygiene.
Reproductive Health Services > organization & administration
Healthcare Disparities
Indians, North American
Reproductive Rights
Women's Health
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women > Health and hygiene
Reproductive rights
Indians of North America
Indian women > Health and hygiene
Indians of North America > Health and hygiene
Reproductive health
United States
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Table of 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.

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