Chaparro-Buitrago Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America

The Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3606-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Decolonization and Social Worlds

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, this book analyses how Indigenous peasant women who have experienced reproductive violence describe the harms of forced sterilization and the complexities of using human and reproductive rights frameworks to make their experiences visible through law and activism. The author argues that the focus on individual choice and fertility creates dissonances and hierarchies of discourse that ultimately displace women’s embodied experiences of reproductive violence that do not fit within a repronormative framework.

Introducing dissonance as a decolonial feminist methodology, the book explores how colonial, racialized, and gendered histories shape legal and experiential incommensurability. As the first ethnography on sterilization cases in Peru, it contributes to social studies of reproduction, Latin American studies, and decolonial feminisms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chaparro-Buitrago, Julieta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Wachstum, Entwicklung, Altern
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Towards a Decolonial Critique of Reproductive Rights

1. 'Masters of Their Own Destiny': Women’s Rights and Forced Sterilizations in Peru

2. The Grammar of Reproductive Violence: Ya No Tenemos Fuerza and Debilitating Lifeworlds

3. The Grammar of Reproductive Violence: Alteraciones, Animal Analogies, and the Reconstitution of Lifeworlds

4. Performing Memory, Reproducing Invisibility: Feminist Reproductive Activism

5. The Bureaucratization of Harm: Non- Performativity and the Peruvian State’s Response to Forced Sterilization

Conclusion: Current Reverberations of the Coloniality of Reproduction

Über Autor(innen)

Chaparro-Buitrago, Julieta
Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago is Research Fellow (Veni Grant, Dutch Research Council) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago is Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.