This book examines the historical endeavors to regulate Black female sexuality and reproduction in the United States, through methods of exploitation, control, and repression. INDICE: - PART I: WHY BLACK REPRODUCTION? - Introduction - The Significance of Social Rhetoric - On Historical Materialist Theory ; Method - Applying the Historical Materialist Paradigm - PART II: SLAVERY MATTERS! - Becoming Instruments of Production - This the White Man's Burden Or Ours? - Age Old Pimpin':Exploitative Reproductive Policies - PART III: EMANCIPATEDb&NOT LIBERATED - Labour in the Industrial Age - Becoming a Social Problem - Morons, Mental Defectives, Prostitutes, ; Dope Fiends: Restrictive Reproductive Policies - PART IV: A BRAND NEW DAY - Global Capitalism in the Electronic Age - Pathologizing the Black Woman - She's Out of Control: Controlling Reproductive Policies - Vilifying Black Motherhood - Gettin' Your Tubes Tied: Coercive Reproductive Policies - PART V: TOWARD A THEORY ON THE COMMODIFICATION OF BLACK WOMEN'S REPRODUCTION - Rationalizing Commodification - Social Rhetoric as a Hegemonic Tool - Commodifying Black Reproduction - PART VI: LIBERATION - Finding Freedom - Notes - Key Concepts and Definitions - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61530-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés