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Paperback The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism Book

ISBN: 1478009411

ISBN13: 9781478009412

The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism

(Part of the Theory in Forms Series)

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In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought government compensation. When the scandal broke in 1970, the doctors claimed to have been encouraged to perform these abortions by French politicians who sought to curtail reproduction on the island, even...

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