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Reproductive Justice - The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women

English · Paperback / Softback

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Commonly Used Acronyms
Part I Introductions: The Stories We Tell and Why
1          Introducing Our Relatives and Introducing the Story
2          Stories from Indian Country  
3          Whose Rights? Whose Justice? Reproductive Oppression, Reproductive Justice, and the Reproductive Body
Part II         Tracing the Ruling Relations: Health Care, the Reproductive Body, and Native America
4          The Ruling Relations of Reproductive Health Care
5          Producing the Double Discourse: The History and Politics of Native-U.S. Relations and Imperialist Medicine
6          “To Uphold the Federal Government’s Obligations . . . and to Honor and Protect”: The Double Discourse of the Indian Health Service
Part III        Consequences of the Double Discourse: Native Women’s Experiences with the Indian Health Service
7          Resistance and Accommodation: Negotiating Prenatal Care and Childbirth
8          One in Three: Violence against Native Women
9          Genocidal Consequences: Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion in the Fourth-World Context
Part IV        Reproductive Justice for Native Women
10        Community Knowledges, Community Capital, and Cultural Safety
11        Conclusions: Native Women in the Center
Appendix A: Methods and Methodologies
Appendix B: A Brief History of Federal Actions Impacting Native Healthcare

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Index


About the author










BARBARA GURR is an assistant professor in residence in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.


Product details

Authors Barbara Gurr
Publisher Rutgers University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 09.12.2014
 
EAN 9780813564685
ISBN 978-0-8135-6468-5
No. of pages 192
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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