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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1. VerfasserIn: Carpio, Myla Vicenti (Verfasst von)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2004
In: Social justice
Jahr: 2004, Band: 31, Heft: 4, Seiten: 40-53
Online-Zugang: Volltext (Verlag)
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Schlagwörter:
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