Policing the National Body

Sex, Race, and Criminalization

Author: Jael Silliman
Secondary Author: Anannya Bhattacharjee
ISBN: 0896086607

Aggressive law enforcement is devastating women of color and their communities. Yet the mainstream reproductive rights movement, largely dominated by white women and consumed with protecting the right to abortion, has failed to respond adequately to the policing, criminalization, and incarceration of large numbers of poor people and people of color. Policing the National Body places issues of race, class, and gender at the center of its reproductive rights and social justice agenda by focusing on a key concern among women of color and poor communities today: the difficulty of maintaining families and sustaining community in the face of increasing criminalization. Women of color have independently articulated a broad reproductive rights agenda embedded in issues of equality and social justice, while keenly tuned to the state's role in the reproduction and regulation of women's bodies. In an effort to protect their reproductive rights, they have challenged coercive population policies, d

Publisher: South End Press
Publish Date: 2002-01

Subjects: Education / Multicultural Education, Political Science / General, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Politics/Human Rights)