The Lost Generation: American Indian Women and Sterilization Abuse

Part of a special issue on native women and state violence. The writer documents the abuse inflicted by a colonialist, patriarchal state on Native American women in the form of unauthorized, involuntary sterilization procedures conducted by the Indian Health Service. She reviews the various investig...

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Autor principal: Carpio, Myla Vicenti (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2004
En: Social justice
Año: 2004, Volumen: 31, Número: 4, Páginas: 40-53
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Publisher)
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Palabras clave:
United States. General Accounting Office
United States. Indian Health Service
Crimes against women
Genital surgery
Birth Control
Indigenous women
Sterilization (Birth control)
Native American women
Native Americans > Government relations > History
Involuntary sterilization
Hysterectomy