Jael Silliman

Auteur van Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice

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Over de Auteur

Jael Silliman, born into the Baghdadi Jewish community of Calcutta, was educated at Wellesley College, Mass., Harvard University, University of Texas, Austin, and received her doctoral degree in international education at Columbia University. She has written extensively on gender and economic toon meer development, and women's movements in the developing world. Her recent publications include The Teak Almirah and Where Gods Reside: Sacred Places of Kolkata. toon minder

Bevat de naam: Jael Silliman

Fotografie: Center for American Progress

Werken van Jael Silliman

Populair Recent

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice (2004) 152 exemplaren

Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalization (2002) 56 exemplaren

Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development (1999) 31 exemplaren

Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope (2001) 10 exemplaren

The Man with Many Hats (2013) 4 exemplaren

The Teak Almirah (2016) 1 exemplaar

Where gods reside : sacred places of Kolkata (2018) 1 exemplaar

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111484 (2) 2000-2009 (2) Abortus (5) Activisme (6) adsa (2) Anticonceptie (2) Bevolking (2) black feminism (3) Bloemlezing (2) Crime and race--United States (2) criminalization (2) Ecofeminisme (2) essays (2) Feminisme (18) feministisch (2) Feministische Theorie (3) GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES (2) Gezondheidszorg (2) Hall Shelf 03 (2) incarceration (2) India (2) milieu (2) Minderheden (2) Minority women--Crimes against--United States (2) Non-fictie (16) Politiek (4) Racisme (4) Ras (18) Reproduction/Reproductive Technologies (2) reproductive health (2) Reproductive Justice (9) reproductive rights (6) Sekse (2) Sociale gerechtigheid (4) Sociologie (3) te lezen (13) vrouwen (4) Vrouwenstudies (6) women of color (6) Women/Gender Studies (2)

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Algemene kennis

Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: Silliman, Jael Miriam
Geboortedatum: 1955
Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: India
USA

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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for… door Jael Silliman

Undivided Rights details many reproductive justice organizations focused on African American, Latina, Asian / Pacific Island and Native American women. While the case-study format doesn't exactly make for a captivating read, the book is very interesting in bringing up the unique needs of women of color in the reproductive health movement. The middle-upper class white model of legal and safe abortion just doesn't cut it for women who face involuntary sterilization, lack of reproductive health education and services, unethical testing and use of long-acting birth control among other challenges.… (meer)

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Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for… door Jael Silliman

great feminist resource on the history of reproductive rights struggles of women of colour. this should be required reading for all white feminists!

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