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Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women
Barbara Gurr
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Description for Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL9; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 322.
In Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first analysis of Native American women’s reproductive healthcare and offers a sustained consideration of the movement for reproductive justice in the United States.
The book examines the reproductive healthcare experiences on Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota—where Gurr herself lived for more than a year. Gurr paints an insightful portrait of the Indian Health Service (IHS)—the federal agency tasked with providing culturally appropriate, adequate healthcare to Native Americans—shedding much-needed light on Native American women’s efforts to obtain prenatal care, access to contraception, abortion services, and access ... Read more
In Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first analysis of Native American women’s reproductive healthcare and offers a sustained consideration of the movement for reproductive justice in the United States.
The book examines the reproductive healthcare experiences on Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota—where Gurr herself lived for more than a year. Gurr paints an insightful portrait of the Indian Health Service (IHS)—the federal agency tasked with providing culturally appropriate, adequate healthcare to Native Americans—shedding much-needed light on Native American women’s efforts to obtain prenatal care, access to contraception, abortion services, and access ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813564685
SKU
V9780813564685
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Ref
99-1
About Barbara Gurr
BARBARA GURR is an assistant professor in residence in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.
Reviews for Reproductive Justice: The Politics of Health Care for Native American Women
"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
"In Gurr's analysis we hear the voices of Lakota women, we see the structural limitations and oppressions that ... Read more
Women's Review of Books
"In Gurr's analysis we hear the voices of Lakota women, we see the structural limitations and oppressions that ... Read more