The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism

by Françoise Vergès

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478008520
• ISBN13: 9781478008521
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"