Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780814758212
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Women's studies; Sociology; History; Birth control; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; History - General History; Social conditions; USA; Abortion & Birth Control; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Lifest; Feminism & Feminist Theory; United States; 20th century; Abortion; Minority women
First sentence: In 1973, Guadalupe Acosta, a poor Mexican woman living in Los Angeles, gave birth at the University of Southern California-Los Angeles County Medical Center to an encephalic child who died shortly after delivery.