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05164aam a2200577 i 4500 001 A3FC78F8129911EBB48536AA50ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201020010019 008 200420t20202020ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019047899 020 $a 1478009411 020 $a 9781478009412 020 $a 1478008520 020 $a 9781478008521 035 $a (OCoLC)1122909668 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d IaU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- $a e-fr--- 050 00 $a HQ766.5.R4 $b V4713 2020 082 00 $a 305.42096981/0904 $2 23 100 1 $a VergeÌs, Françoise, $d 1952- $e author. 240 10 $a Ventre des femmes. $l English 245 14 $a The wombs of women : $b race, capital, feminism / $c Françoise VergeÌs ; translated and with an introduction by Kaiama Glover. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xviii, 162 pages ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Theory in forms 500 $a Translated from the French. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The island of Doctor Moreau -- The rhetoric of "impossible development" : dependency, repression, and anticolonial struggle -- The wombs of Black women, capitalism, and the international division of labor -- "The future is elsewhere" -- French feminist blindness : race, coloniality, capitalism -- Conclusion: Repoliticizing feminism. 520 $a "THE WOMBS OF WOMEN, originally published in France in 2017 as Le Ventre des femmes, and translated into English by French and Africana studies scholar Kaiama Glover, is Françoise VergeÌs's examination of the 1970s scandal in ReÌunion upon the discovery that doctors had performed thousands of abortions on ReÌunionese women without their knowledge, and had collected Social Security reimbursements by over-reporting and falsifying medical costs. For VergeÌs, the scandal and its aftermath-in which the doctors responsible received minimal to no legal or criminal repercussions, and the ReÌunionese women received no reparations-exemplifies the coloniality of power in French overseas departments in the postcolonial era. In this book, one of VergeÌs's primary aims is to interrogate the French definition of the "postcolonial," positing the postcolonial not as a temporality but rather a set of practices and politics that took (and continue to take) place in the wake of the empire's supposed dissolution. Postcoloniality, according to VergeÌs, is therefore not the end of the colonial relationship but a re-imagining of the colonial territory into French constituencies and "overseas" departments, and is the condition which allowed for the abuse and violence against ReÌunionese women to take place. In particular, VergeÌs examines the history of racialized capitalism in ReÌunion, and the changing discourses of birth control and population management in France and the overseas territories that occured in the transitional moment from colonial to postcolonial. Additionally, this book seeks to intervene in the raced and classed constructions of French feminism and to ask why the voices of women from the overseas departments rarely appear in French feminist analysis. Chapter 1 offers a detailed account of the events surrounding the forced abortions and sterilization of ReÌunionese women. Chapters 2 and 4 provide historical context for understanding the transition from colonial to postcolonial in the overseas departments, and how population management came to define the postcolonial condition of ReÌunion. Chapter 3 foregrounds the workings of racial capitalism, and specifically how the wombs of black women are raced. Chapter 5 intervenes in constructions of French feminism and centers the experiences of women living in the French overseas departments. This book will be of interests to scholars of feminism; colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial studies; French studies; African studies; and critical ethnic studies"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Birth control $z ReÌunion $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Birth control $z France $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Women $z ReÌunion $x Social conditions $y 20th century. 651 0 $a France $x Population policy. 651 0 $a ReÌunion $x Population policy. 651 0 $a ReÌunion $x Ethnic relations. 650 7 $a Birth control. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00833148 650 7 $a Ethnic relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916005 650 7 $a Population policy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01071601 650 7 $a Women $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176947 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 651 7 $a ReÌunion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205795 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Glover, Kaiama L., $d 1972- $e translator. 776 08 $i Online version: $a VergeÌs, Françoise, 1952- $t Wombs of women. $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2020 $z 9781478008866 $w (DLC) 2019047900 830 0 $a Theory in forms. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022303.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A3FC78F8129911EBB48536AA50ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search