Latinx Feminist Thought: Ideas, Movements, and the Pursuit of Reproductive Justice (Sociology Re-Wired)

Drawing on the influence of Collins’ Black Feminist Thought, this book explores how Latinx feminists create theories about intersecting inequalities via their social movement practice-particularly as these relate to reproductive justice. Many people in the United States associate reproductive politics primarily with the contentious debates surrounding abortion and contraceptive access.Yet, Rocío R. García argues the United States also has a persistent preoccupation with the reproductive lives of people of Latin American descent, evidenced in debates about undocumented immigration and birthright citizenship, the politics regarding social services to help Latinx families out of poverty, and past and contemporary examples of the coerced sterilization of Puerto Rican and Mexican-origin Latinxs, among many other issues.At the intersections of these reproductive inequalities are a growing group of Latinx feminists in the movement for reproductive justice-a social movement across the United S