Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America
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Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America

The Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru

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Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America

The Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru

About this book

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, this book analyses how Indigenous peasant women who have experienced reproductive violence describe the harms of forced sterilization and the complexities of using human and reproductive rights frameworks to make their experiences visible through law and activism. The author argues that the focus on individual choice and fertility creates dissonances and hierarchies of discourse that ultimately displace women's embodied experiences of reproductive violence that do not fit within a repronormative framework.

Introducing dissonance as a decolonial feminist methodology, the book explores how colonial, racialized, and gendered histories shape legal and experiential incommensurability. As the first ethnography on sterilization cases in Peru, it contributes to social studies of reproduction, Latin American studies, and decolonial feminisms.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Series Editors’ Preface
  9. List of Figures and Tables
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction: Towards a Decolonial Critique of Reproductive Rights
  12. 1 ‘Masters of Their Own Destiny’: Women’s Rights and Forced Sterilizations in Peru
  13. 2 The Grammar of Reproductive Violence: Ya No Tenemos Fuerza and Debilitating Lifeworlds
  14. 3 The Grammar of Reproductive Violence: Alteraciones, Animal Analogies, and the Reconstitution of Lifeworlds
  15. 4 Performing Memory, Reproducing Invisibility: Feminist Reproductive Activism
  16. 5 The Bureaucratization of Harm: Non-Performativity and the Peruvian State’s Response to Forced Sterilization
  17. Conclusion: Current Reverberations of the Coloniality of Reproduction
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index