Killing the Black Body
Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
New York : Pantheon Books, [1997]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 373 pages ; 25 cm
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black women's--especially poor black women's--control over their bodies' autonomy and their freedom to bear and raise children with respect and dignity in a society whose white mainstream is determined to demonize, even criminalize their lives. It gives its readers a cogent legal and historical argument for a radically new , and socially transformative, definition of "liberty" and "equality" for the American polity from a black feminist perspective.
Subjects:
Birth control -- United States.
African American women -- Civil rights.
Welfare recipients -- United States.
Race discrimination -- United States.
Birth control -- United States.
African American women -- Civil rights.
Welfare recipients -- United States.
Race discrimination -- United States.
ISBN:
067944226X
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HEALTH Society Rob | Northeast Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-357) and index.