Vergès / Francoise Verges The Wombs of Women

Race, Capital, Feminism
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0886-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten

Reihe: Theory in Forms

Françoise Vergès examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Réunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vergès, Françoise

Francoise Verges, Verges

Weitere Mitwirkende

Glover, Kaiama L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Reproduktionsmedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix
Translator's Introduction xiii
Introduction 1
1. The Island of Doctor Moreau 1
2. The Rhetoric of "Impossible Development": Dependency, Repression, and Anticolonial Struggle 29
3. The Wombs of Black Women, Capitalism, and the International Division of Labor 49
4. "The Future Is Elsewhere" 63
5. French Feminist Blindness: Race, Coloniality, Capitalism 89
Conclusion: Repoliticizing Feminism 115
Notes 125
Index 157

Über Autor(innen)

Françoise Vergès is an antiracist feminist activist, a public educator, an independent curator, and the cofounder of the collective Decolonize the Arts and of the free and open university Decolonizing the Arts. She is the author of Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage, also published by Duke University Press, and numerous books in French.

Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College.