Challenging reproductive control and gendered violence in the Américas : intersectionality, power, and struggles for rights / Leandra Hinojosa Hernández and Sarah De Los Santos Upton.

Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Américas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights utilizes an intersectional Chicana feminist approach to analyze reproductive and gendered violence against women in the Américas and the role of feminist acitivism through case...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Lexington studies in health communication.
Main Authors: Hernández, Leandra Hinojosa (Author)
Upton, Sarah De Los Santos (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Series:Lexington studies in health communication.
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Physical Description:xxiv, 148 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Feminist activism and reproductive control across the Americas
  • "A right doesn't mean much if you can't access it" : news discourses of abortion, reproductive rights, and anti-abortion supporters
  • Epidemics, crimes, and "nothing to worry about" : news coverage of gender, reproductive health, and the zika virus in Latin American news discourses
  • Intersections of culture, gender, religion, and politics : problematizing the notion of choice in reproductive feminicides in Latin America
  • Moving from voyeurism to bearing witness : efforts to produce conocimiento around feminicide in Ciudad Juárez
  • Conclusion: American and Latin American feminist politics and new futures for feminist activism and news coverage of women
  • References
  • About the authors.