We Are Pregnant with Freedom (eBook)

Black Feminist Storytelling for Reproductive Justice

Stacie Elizabeth Selmon McCormick (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
280 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39880-1 (ISBN)

Infos

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Situated at the crossroads of author Stacie Selmon McCormicks lived experiences as a Black birthing person, mother, and scholar, We Are Pregnant with Freedom traces Black sexual and reproductive liberation through the storytelling work of those most marginalized in reproductive justice research and discourse. The book recounts McCormicks loss of twin sons to stillbirth, her near-fatal experience with preeclampsia, and her subsequent reproductive justice research and advocacy work with the Afiya Center, a Black-led reproductive justice organization in Texas. Its multidisciplinary narrative shatters the silences wrought by stigma and historical erasure, ultimately proposing a new grammar of reproductive justice that can serve the people as a vehicle for community building, healing, and bodily liberation.

Inhalt

Contents
 
Foreword: Reproductive Freedom Dreaming in Texas: A Livable Black Futures Collective Statement
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction: Waterbreaking
1. Toward a Radical We: Decolonizing Sexual and Reproductive Health
2. Reproductive Justice: An American Grammar
3. Rememory: A Reproductive Justice Mixtape
4. Imagining Livable Black Futures
5. Abolition Medicine
6. Policing Black Birth
Epilogue: You Won't Break My Soul
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39880-7 / 0520398807
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39880-1 / 9780520398801