Verges Francoise Verges

Wombs of Women (eBook, PDF)

Race, Capital, Feminism

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Produktbeschreibung

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 though abortion was illegal in France. In The Wombs of Women-first published in French and appearing here in English for the first time-Francoise Verges traces the long history of colonial state intervention in black women's wombs during the slave trade and postslavery imperialism as well as in current birth control politics. She examines the women's liberation movement in France in the 1960s and 1970s, showing that by choosing to ignore the history of the racialization of women's wombs, French feminists inevitably ended up defending the rights of white women at the expense of women of color. Ultimately, Verges demonstrates how the forced abortions on Reunion were manifestations of the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478008866
• Artikelnr.: 66282419

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