Policing the national body
Subtitle: sex, race, and criminalization
By: edited by Jael Silliman and Anannya Bhattacharjee.
Contributors: Silliman, Jael Miriam.; Bhattacharjee, Anannya.; Davis, Angela Y. 1944-; Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment.
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Minority women -- Crimes against -- United States; Crime and race -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A project of the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment."
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Policing the national body : sex, race, and criminalization / Jael Silliman; title: Private fists and public force : race, gender, and surveillance / Anannya Bhattacharjee; title: Killing the Black community : a commentary on the United States war on drugs / Judith A.M. Scully; title: Speaking out against state violence : activist HIV-positive women prisoners redefine social justice / Cynthia Chandler and Carol Kingery; title: Abortion in the United States : barriers to access / Marlene Gerber Fried; title: Better dead than pregnant : the colonization of native women's reproductive health / Andrea Smith; title: Just choices : women of color, reproductive health, and human rights / Loretta J. Ross [et al.]; title: The gendered assault on immigrants / Syd Lindsley; title: Put in harm's way : the neglected health consequences of sex trafficking in the United States / H. Patricia Hynes and Janice G. Raymond; title: Superpredator meets teenage mom : exploding the myth of the out-of-control youth / Anne Hendrixson; title: The changing faces of population control / Betsy Hartmann; title: Greening the swastika : nativism and anti-Semitism in the population and environment debate / Rajani Bhatia; title: Afterword. Reflections on post-September 11 America : an interview with Angela Y. Davis / Anannya Bhattacharjee and Jael Silliman.