Women of color and the reproductive rights movement
- Creator
- Nelson, Jennifer
Women of color and the reproductive rights movement
Nelson retells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive rights in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s through the particular contributions of women of colour. Nelson shows that women of colour were able to successfully remake the mainstream women's liberation and reproductive rights movements by shifting their agenda away from a focus solely on the right to abortion and by appropriating select aspects of Black and Puerto Rican nationalist politics - including the need to address sterilization abuse, access to affordable childcare and healthcare, and ways to raise children out of poverty - for feminist discourse.
- Creator
- Nelson, Jennifer