The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism

Author/Contributor(s):	Verges, Francoise
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	08/14/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Françoise Vergès examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Réunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.