Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America

The Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3605-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chaparro-Buitrago, Julieta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Wachstum, Entwicklung, Altern
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Kindesmissbrauch, Sexueller Missbrauch, Häusliche Gewalt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Masters of their Own Destiny: Women’s Rights and Forced Sterilization in the 1990s

2. Grammar of Reproductive Abuse: “Ya no Tenemos Fuerza”

3. Grammar of Reproductive Abuse: Alteraciones and Animal Analogies

4. Contingent Consonances: Survivors’ and Feminists’ Activism

5. Non-Performativity and the Bureaucratization of Harm, or How States Deal with Reproductive Violence

Über Autor(innen)

Chaparro-Buitrago, Julieta
Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago is Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.

Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago is Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge.