Francoise Verges

The Wombs of Women

Race, Capital, Feminism
Übersetzer: Glover, Kaiama L.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Theory in Forms
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781478009412
• ISBN-10: 1478009411
• Artikelnr.: 58462059

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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