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Killing the black body : race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty

In Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts gives a powerful and authoritative account of the on-going assault - both figurative and literal - waged by the American government and our society on the reproductive rights of Black women
Print Book, English, ©1997
Pantheon Books, New York, ©1997
x, 373 pages ; 25 cm
9780679442264, 067944226X
36315907
Ch. 1. Reproduction in Bondage
Ch. 2. The Dark Side of Birth Control
Ch. 3. From Norplant to the Contraceptive Vaccine: The New Frontier of Population Control
Ch. 4. Making Reproduction a Crime
Ch. 5. The Welfare Debate: Who Pays for Procreation?
Ch. 6. Race and the New Reproduction
Ch. 7. The Meaning of Liberty