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Author Hernández, Leandra Hinojosa, author

Title Challenging reproductive control and gendered violence in the Américas : intersectionality, power, and struggles for rights / Leandra Hinojosa Hernández and Sarah De Los Santos Upton
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Lexington studies in health communication
Lexington studies in health communication.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Feminist activism and reproductive control across the Americas -- "A right doesn't mean much if you can't access it" : news discourses of abortion, reproductive rights, and anti-abortion supporters -- Epidemics, crimes, and "nothing to worry about" : news coverage of gender, reproductive health, and the zika virus in Latin American news discourses -- Intersections of culture, gender, religion, and politics : problematizing the notion of choice in reproductive feminicides in Latin America -- Moving from voyeurism to bearing witness : efforts to produce conocimiento around feminicide in Ciudad Juárez -- Conclusion: American and Latin American feminist politics and new futures for feminist activism and news coverage of women -- References -- About the authors
Summary This book utilizes an intersectional feminist approach to analyze reproductive and gendered violence against women across the Americas with case studies focusing on the Zika virus, reproductive feminicides, and the role of feminist activism in organizing against violence
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 30, 2018)
Subject Reproductive rights -- America
Women -- Violence against -- America
Feminism -- America
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Feminism
Reproductive rights
Women -- Violence against
America
Form Electronic book
Author Upton, Sarah De Los Santos, author
LC no. 2018009704
ISBN 9781498542586
1498542581