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    Default book recommendation: Killing the Black Body

    http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Black-.../dp/0679758690

    It is a deep, powerful book looking into the history of how black women (and to a lesser extent Puerto Rican and Native American women) have had their reproductive freedom curtailed or openly fought against in the United States.

    Just an amazing, informative read for anyone interested in reproductive choice, feminism and womanism.

    You get to find out things like Margaret Sanger was not the hateful racist she is portrayed as these days, and that there has never been a 'black matriarchy' at all. Or that the crack baby thing was a complete fabrication.

    I just think all women should read books like this, just to understand how women of all types can be denied the basic management of their own bodies and fertility at any time (there is also some stuff about how poor white women were forcibly sterilized against their will en masse, for example).

    Anyway, great book, get a copy!

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    Default Re: book recommendation: Killing the Black Body

    Will check that out....

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    Default Re: book recommendation: Killing the Black Body

    Quote Originally Posted by miabella View Post
    You get to find out things like Margaret Sanger was not the hateful racist she is portrayed as these days,

    Have you ever read MSangers transcripts for the speeches she gave? Or her own autobiography?

    If you'd like to read a good book, read Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences. It is a great expose' of Alfred Kinseys 'scientific' fraud.
    Quote Originally Posted by The Snark View Post
    But then I suppose the sort of people who write this kind of crap generally don't allow their opinions to be tainted by things like "facts" and "reality".
    Distortion becomes somehow pure in its wildness
    The note that began all can also destroy

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