Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in AmericaNYU Press, 2008 M11 1 - 288 páginas Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender Section |
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... percent of the perpetrators will be mothers acting alone.5 Given their extensive previous involvement with family court, one would be hard-pressed to assert that Rodney, Stephanie, and Judgette are model parents, or even necessarily ...
... percent of the population at the time), giving priority to those million or so who were institutionalized in poorhouses, mental hospitals, and prisons.24 At first, compulsory sterilization programs (which attempted to force people to ...
... percent of the girls.29 California's policy focused more on female sexuality than on racial minorities or immigrants ... percentage of the girls brought into court were for sex offenses and a great many of them were found to be feeble ...
... percent of the federal budget.79 TANF/welfare benefits are limited to a maximum of five years in a lifetime and are quite stingy. For example, food stamp benefits average about $80 per person per month (in 2003 dollars). Cash benefits ...
... percent black, respectively. Yet, Harris insists that Project Prevention “doesn't target any particular race. . . . We target drug addicts, and that's it. Skin color doesn't matter, and we believe all babies matter, even black babies ...
Contenido
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Bearing | 93 |
Mothering | 137 |
Being | 182 |
Notes | 191 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
Index | 299 |
About the Author | 307 |
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Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Vista previa limitada - 2010 |
Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America Jeanne Flavin Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |