Together We Fight

Disguised as a family planning program during Peru's internal armed conflict, a campaign was launched by the government of Alberto Fujimori that resulted in the forced sterilization of thousands of women of poor, rural, and Indigenous-language-speaking backgrounds. Together We Fight explores Indigenous and non-Indigenous women's brutal experiences of forced sterilizations and their subsequent activism for reproductive rights and justice. Drawing on a vast trove of first-person testimony, Ñusta Carranza Ko highlights the understudied voices of victim-survivors, unpacking their ideas of justice and examining the work of allies that have accompanied them in their activism. Focusing on the stories, struggles, and lived experiences of victim-survivors, Carranza Ko argues that the campaign was genocidal.

About the author

Ñusta Carranza Ko is Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore.

Product details

• Authors: Nusta Carranza Ko, Ñusta Carranza Ko
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.02.2026
• EAN: 9780520396647
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39664-7
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Peru, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Gender studies: women, Civil rights & citizenship, Gender studies: women and girls, Human rights, civil rights, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity