Book
Fighting for control: power, reproductive care, and race in the US-Mexico borderlands
Justice, power, and politics, The University of North Carolina Press
2025
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Abstract
"The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as well as the Catholic Church and Mexican American activists. Uncovering nearly one hundred years of struggle, Lina-Maria Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their communities. Faced with a family planning movement steeped in eugenic ideology, working-class Mexican-origin women strategically demanded additional health services and then formed their own clinics to provide care on their own terms. Along the way, they developed what Murillo calls reproductive care- quotidian acts of community solidarity- as activists organized for better housing, education, wages, as well as access to birth control, abortion, and more. Centering the agency of these women and communities, Murillo lays bare Mexican-origin women's long battle for human dignity and power in the borderlands as reproductive freedom in Texas once again hangs in the balance"--
Includes bibliographical references and index
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Fighting for control: power, reproductive care, and race in the US-Mexico borderlands
- Creators
- Lina-Maria Murillo
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press; Chapel Hill
- Series
- Justice, power, and politics
- ISBN
- 9781469682594; 1469682591; 9781469682587; 1469682583
- Number of pages
- 325 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- History; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984769792402771
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