Title Reproductive rights as human rights : women of color and the fight for reproductive justice / Zakiya Luna

Published New York : New York University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations Contents Restrictive domestication : human rights and US exceptionalism -- Pushed to human rights : marginalization in the US women's movement -- Pulled to human rights : engagement with global gatherings -- Training the trainers amidst backlash -- Marching toward human rights or reproductive justice? -- Writing rights and responsibility -- "They're all intertwined" : developing human rights consciousness -- "Puppies and rainbows" or pragmatic politics? : organizations engaging with human rights -- Conclusion: Making Utopias real -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights Summary "How did reproductive justice (defined as the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent) become recognized as a human rights issue? In [this book] Zakiya Luna highlights the often-forgotten activism of women of color who are largely responsible for creating what we now know as the modern-day reproductive justice movement. Focusing on SisterSong, an intersectional reproductive justice organization, Luna shows how, and why, women of color mobilized around reproductive rights in the domestic arena. She examines their key role in re-framing reproductive rights as human rights, raising this set of issues as a priority in the United States, a country hostile to the concept of human rights at home"-- Provided by the publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 11, 2020) Subject Minority women -- United States -- Social conditions African American women -- Social conditions Women, Black -- United States -- Social conditions Birth control -- United States Reproductive rights -- United States Women's rights -- United States. Human rights -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family. Reproductive rights Women's rights Women, Black -- Social conditions Minority women -- Social conditions Human rights Birth control African American women -- Social conditions United States Form Electronic book LC no. 2020016981 ISBN 9781479804146 1479804142 9781479894369 1479894362

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