Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice

by Marlene Gerber, Jael Silliman, Elena Gutierrez, et al.

Book Overview

Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896087298
• ISBN13: 9780896087293
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: South End Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Freedom of choice for every woman!

This groundbreaking book documents the courageous activism of feminists of color fighting for reproductive freedom. Faced with the oftentimes blatant racism and classism of the mainstream women's movement and obstacles of sexism amongst many of the men within their racial communities, these women are bravely demanding access to abortions and an end to sterilization abuse. With the anti-choice opposition trying to control female sexuality and reduce women's bodies to baby-making factories, this book is more important than ever. Not to mention that race and class are still pressing issues in this country, as evidenced by the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina and recent attempts to further criminalize undocumented immigrants . However, though the book details the thoughts and actions of African-American, Latina, Asian-American, and Native American feminists, I was disappointed that it neglected to mention the work being done by Arab-Americans. Nevertheless,this is an excellent book, and unfortunately an urgent one.