Jael Silliman

Auteur de Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice

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A propos de l'auteur

Jael Silliman, born into the Baghdadi Jewish community of Calcutta, was educated at Wellesley College, Mass., Harvard University, University of Texas, Austin, and received her doctoral degree in international education at Columbia University. She has written extensively on gender and economic afficher plus development, and women's movements in the developing world. Her recent publications include The Teak Almirah and Where Gods Reside: Sacred Places of Kolkata. afficher moins

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Œuvres de Jael Silliman

Populaires Récent

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice (2004) 152 exemplaires

Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalization (2002) 56 exemplaires

Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development (1999) 31 exemplaires

Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope (2001) 10 exemplaires

The Man with Many Hats (2013) 4 exemplaires

The Teak Almirah (2016) 1 exemplaire

Where gods reside : sacred places of Kolkata (2018) 1 exemplaire

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111484 (2) A lire (13) Activisme politique (6) adsa (2) Années 2000 (2) Anthologie (2) Black feminism (3) Contrôle des naissances (2) Crime and race--United States (2) criminalization (2) Droits reproductifs (6) Emprisonnement en droit français (2) Environnement (2) essais (2) femmes (4) Féminisme (18) Féministe (2) GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES (2) Genre (2) Hall Shelf 03 (2) Inde (2) Interruption volontaire de grossesse (5) Justice sociale (4) minorities (2) Minority women--Crimes against--United States (2) non-fiction (16) Politique (4) Population (2) race (18) Racisme (4) Reproduction/Reproductive Technologies (2) Reproductive Justice (9) Santé reproductive (2) Sociologie (3) Soins de santé (2) théorie féministe (3) women of color (6) Women/Gender Studies (2) Écoféminisme (2) Études féministes (6)

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Autres noms: Silliman, Jael Miriam
Date de naissance: 1955
Sexe: female
Nationalité: India
USA

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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for… par Jael Silliman

Undivided Rights details many reproductive justice organizations focused on African American, Latina, Asian / Pacific Island and Native American women. While the case-study format doesn't exactly make for a captivating read, the book is very interesting in bringing up the unique needs of women of color in the reproductive health movement. The middle-upper class white model of legal and safe abortion just doesn't cut it for women who face involuntary sterilization, lack of reproductive health education and services, unethical testing and use of long-acting birth control among other challenges.… (plus d'informations)

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lemontwist | 1 autre critique | Jan 31, 2010 |

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for… par Jael Silliman

great feminist resource on the history of reproductive rights struggles of women of colour. this should be required reading for all white feminists!

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terese | 1 autre critique | May 27, 2006 |

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