Killing the Black Body Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Name: Killing the Black Body Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
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ISBN: 9780679758693

ISBN-10: 0679758690

ISBN-13: 9780679758693

Edition: N/A

Authors: Dorothy Roberts

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This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black women's--especially poor black women's--control over their bodies' autonomy and their freedom to bear and raise children with respect and dignity in a society whose white mainstream is determined to demonize, even criminalize their lives. It gives its readers a cogent legal and historical argument for a radically new , and socially transformative, definition of "liberty" and "equality" for the…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/29/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.15" wide x 7.95" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English