The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism by Kaiama L. Glover, Françoise Vergès

The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism

Kaiama L. Glover, Françoise Vergès

nonfiction feminism gender race challenging informative medium-paced

184 pages | first published 2020

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In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Réunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors who operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries for which they sought governmen...
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