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Policing the National Body
Race, Gender and Criminalization
Jael Silliman (Editor) and Anannya Bhatacharjee (Editor); Angela Y. Davis (Foreword)
Pages: 384ISBN: 0-89608-660-7
Format: paper
Release Date: 2002-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
A Project of the Committee on Women, Population and the Environment
One of the key concerns among women of color and poor communities today is the difficulty of sustaining families in the face of increasing criminalization. Aggressive law enforcement, welfare reform, and draconian immigration and population policies have made one of the most fundamental reproductive rights—the right to have a child and raise a family—a battleground for women of color and poor women. Policing the National Body places issues of race, class, and gender at the center of the reproductive rights and social justice agenda. This timely collection reveals the unrelenting efforts by conservatives—including misguided environmentalists and religious fundamentalists—to define and regulate reproduction in ways that uphold white privilege. In the wake of September 11, as aggressive law enforcement has escalated, this important collection provides ammunition to combat the erosion of civil liberties.
Contributors Include
Jael Silliman; Anannya Bhattacharjee; Judith A.M. Scully; Cynthia Chandler; Carol Kingery; Marlene Gerber Fried; Andrea Smith; Loretta J. Ross; Sarah L. Brownlee; Dazon Dixon Diallo; Luz Rodriguez; SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Project; Syd Lindsley; H. Patricia Hynes; Janice G. Raymond; Anne Hendrixson; Betsy Hartmann; Rajani Bhatia
Table of Contents
Introduction Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalization
by Jael Silliman
1 Private Fists and Public Force: Race, Gender, and Surveillance
by Anannya Bhattacharjee
2 Killing the Black Community: A Commentary on the United States War
on Drugs by Judith A.M. Scully
3 Speaking Out Against Violence: Activist HIV-Positive Women Prisoners
Redefine Social Justice by Cynthia Chandler and Carol Kingery
4 Abortion in the United States: Barriers to Access by Marlene Gerber
Fried
5 Better Dead Than Pregnant: The Colonization of Native Women's Reproductive
Health by Andrea Smith
6 Just Choices: Women of Color, Reproductive Health, and Human Rights
by Loretta J. Ross, Sarah L. Brownlee, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Luz Rodriquez, and
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Project
7 The Gendered Assault on Immigrants by Syd Lindsley
8 Put in Harm's Way: The Neglected Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking
in the United States by H. Patricia Hynes and Janice G. Raymond
9 Superpredator Meets Teenage Mom: Exploding the Myth of the Out-of-Control
Youth by Anne Hendrixson
10 The Changing Faces of Population Control by Betsy Hartmann
11 Greening the Swastika: Nativism and Anti-Semitism in the Population
and Environment De...
Jael Silliman
Click here to view Jael Silliman's full Author PageJael Silliman has been an activist both in the US and international women’s health and reproductive rights movements. She was a program officer at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, an early supporter of organizations of women of color. She was an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Iowa, where she wrote about social movements, women’s health, and reproductive rights. She is currently the program officer for reproductive rights in the Human Rights Unit at the Ford Foundation. Her most recent book is Policing the National Body: Race, Gender, and Criminalization, co-edited with Anannya Bhattacharjee. She is from India and is an immigrant to the US.