The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism by Françoise Vergès

The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism

Françoise Vergès with Kaiama L. Glover (Translator)

184 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender race challenging informative medium-paced
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In the 1960s thousands of poor women of color on the (post)colonial French island of Reunion had their pregnancies forcefully terminated by white doctors; the doctors operated under the pretext of performing benign surgeries, for which they sought...

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