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Reproductive Justice in the Heartland: Mothering, Maternal Care, and Race in Twenty-First-Century Iowa
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Reproductive Justice in the Heartland: Mothering, Maternal Care, and Race in Twenty-First-Century Iowa

LINA-MARIA Murillo and NATALIE FIXMER-ORAIZ
Maternal Theory, p.761
Demeter Press, 2nd edition
07/01/2021
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1s2t0hn.52

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Abstract

As scholars of reproductive justice, it feels impossible to write an essay about motherhood without examining our contemporary moment. We are one year into a global pandemic that has rocked the foundations of motherhood. People across class and colour have had to rearrange and reimagine their connections to productive and reproductive labour. The cruelty and devastation wrought by COVID-19 has proven deeply uneven. Frontline workers are disproportionately women, immigrants, low-income workers, and people of colour (Rho et al.). Catastrophic job losses have hit women hardest—particularly young women, Black women, Latinas, and women with disabilities (Ewing-Nelson). Mothers have been more

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