Disability Politics and Reproductive Critique in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora
This essay takes a reproductive justice lens, together with the analytical and liberatory insights of intersectional literary and cultural disability studies, to unearth an archive of medical eugenics exercised via non-consensual sterilization in Gayl Jones’s 1975 novel, Corregidora.My analysis als...
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| Language: | English |
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Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University
2024-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://so07.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/DJIIH/article/view/4250/3117 |
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| Summary: | This essay takes a reproductive justice lens, together with the analytical and liberatory insights of intersectional literary and cultural disability studies, to unearth an archive of medical eugenics exercised via non-consensual sterilization in Gayl Jones’s 1975 novel, Corregidora.My analysis also accounts for the ways in which the intimate family unit or couple can serve as a site where historical/state violence is reproduced and perpetuated, troubling the notion of a private sphere, particularly when it comes to Black Americans. Finally, I consider the stakes of such a reading of Jones’s novel for feminist health humanities and the contemporary conversation about reproductive rights and justice in the United States. |
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| ISSN: | 3056-9761 |