Description
Reveals both the promise and the pitfalls associated with a human rights approach to the women of color-focused reproductive rights activism of SisterSong
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 Reproductive Rights as Human Rights, 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. An indispensable read, Reproductive Rights as Human Rights provides a much-needed intersectional perspective on the modern-day reproductive justice movement.Author: Zakiya Luna
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 09/01/2020
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781479831296
ISBN10: 1479831298
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | Marriage & Family
- Medical | Health Policy
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
About the Author
Zakiya Luna is Associate Professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice.