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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gurr does not present Native women as theorists about these policies. She looks to the promising ways forward offered by Native reproductive justice organizers, while not romanticizing the impact this work has had on communities overall." * Women's Review of Books *
"This is a much-needed, long overdue effort to fill the gap in what we know about Native American women’s health and their access to reproductive justice more broadly." -- Jeanne Flavin * author of Our Bodies, Our Crimes: Policing Women's Reproduction in America *
"Gurr’s book is a remarkable tour de force that presents, in elegantly lyrical style, a scathing analysis of the status of Native American women when the government simultaneously claims their bodies and their sexuality, while erecting immutable barriers of exclusion through legal and political subordination." -- Loretta Ross * co-founder of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective *
"In Gurr's analysis we hear the voices of Lakota women, we see the structural limitations and oppressions that contribute to a system of reproductive injustice, and we are asked to envision new pathways for activism. She effectively calls on scholars, activists, legislators, and tribal leaders to do more to move Native women's experiences to the center of conversations about health, wellness, justice, and citizenship in America." * Women and Social Movements *
Table of ContentsCommonly Used Acronyms
Part I Introductions: The Stories We Tell and Why
1 Introducing Our Relatives and Introducing the Story
2 Stories from Indian Country
3 Whose Rights? Whose Justice? Reproductive Oppression, Reproductive Justice, and the Reproductive Body
Part II Tracing the Ruling Relations: Health Care, the Reproductive Body, and Native America
4 The Ruling Relations of Reproductive Health Care
5 Producing the Double Discourse: The History and Politics of Native-U.S. Relations and Imperialist Medicine
6 “To Uphold the Federal Government’s Obligations . . . and to Honor and Protect”: The Double Discourse of the Indian Health Service
Part III Consequences of the Double Discourse: Native Women’s Experiences with the Indian Health Service
7 Resistance and Accommodation: Negotiating Prenatal Care and Childbirth
8 One in Three: Violence against Native Women
9 Genocidal Consequences: Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion in the Fourth-World Context
Part IV Reproductive Justice for Native Women
10 Community Knowledges, Community Capital, and Cultural Safety
11 Conclusions: Native Women in the Center
Appendix A: Methods and Methodologies
Appendix B: A Brief History of Federal Actions Impacting Native Healthcare
References
Index
