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