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BL
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584259
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b413478
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| Main Entry
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Roberts, Dorothy E.,1956-
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| Title & Author
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Killing the black body : : race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty /\ Dorothy Roberts
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| Edition Statement
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First edition
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x, 373 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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067944226X
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: 9780679442264
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-357) and index
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| Contents
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Ch. 1. Reproduction in Bondage -- Ch. 2. The Dark Side of Birth Control -- Ch. 3. From Norplant to the Contraceptive Vaccine: The New Frontier of Population Control -- Ch. 4. Making Reproduction a Crime -- Ch. 5. The Welfare Debate: Who Pays for Procreation? -- Ch. 6. Race and the New Reproduction -- Ch. 7. The Meaning of Liberty
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| Abstract
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In Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts gives a powerful and authoritative account of the on-going assault - both figurative and literal - waged by the American government and our society on the reproductive rights of Black women
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From an intersection of charged vectors (race, gender, motherhood, abortion, welfare, adoption, and the law), Roberts addresses in her impassioned book such issues as: the notion of prenatal property imposed upon slave women by white masters; the unsavory association between birth control champion Margaret Sanger and the eugenics movement of the 1920s; the coercive sterilization of Black women (many of whom were unaware that they had undergone the procedure) under government welfare programs as late as the 1970s; the race and class implications of distributing risky, long-acting contraceptives, such as Norplant, through Medicaid; the rendering of reproduction as a crime of prosecuting women who expose their fetuses to drugs; the controversy over transracial adoption; the welfare debate (who should pay for reproduction?); and the promotion of the new birth technology (in vitro fertilization and egg donation) to serve infertile white couples
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Birth control-- United States
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African American women-- Civil rights
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Welfare recipients-- United States
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Race discrimination-- United States
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| Dewey Classification
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363.9/6/0973
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HQ766.5.U5R58 1997
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