|
Product Description
While the stereotype of the persistently pregnant Mexican-origin woman is longstanding, in the past fifteen years her reproduction has been targeted as a major social problem for the United States. Due to fear-fueled news reports and public perceptions about the changing composition of the nation's racial and ethnic makeup—the so-called Latinization of America—the reproduction of Mexican immigrant women has become a central theme in contemporary U. S. politics since the early 1990s.
In this exploration, Elena R. Gutiérrez considers these public stereotypes of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women as "hyper-fertile baby machines" who "breed like rabbits." She draws on social constructionist perspectives to examine the historical and sociopolitical evolution of these racial ideologies, and the related beliefs that Mexican-origin families are unduly large and that Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women do not use birth control.
Using the coercive sterilization of Mexican-origin women in Los Angeles as a case study, Gutiérrez opens a dialogue on the racial politics of reproduction, and how they have developed for women of Mexican origin in the United States. She illustrates how the ways we talk and think about reproduction are part of a system of racial domination that shapes social policy and affects individual women's lives.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Your Healing is Killing Me
- The Invention of Heterosexuality
- Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family
- Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America
- Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
- Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law)
- Reproductive Justice: An Introduction (Volume 1) (Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century)
- They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields: Illness, Injury, and Illegality among U.S. Farmworkers (California Series in Public Anthropology)
- Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us
*If this is not the "Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican - Origin Women's Reproduction (Chicana Matters)" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Dec 25, 2024 21:43 +08.