THE LAND OF NURSERY RHYME by Daglish Alice And Rhys Ernest; Illustrated By Charles Folkard

THE LAND OF NURSERY RHYME by Daglish Alice And Rhys Ernest; Illustrated By Charles Folkard

The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Ju rez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as well as the Catholic Church and Mexican American activists. Uncovering nearly one hundred years of struggle, Lina-Maria Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their communities.

Faced with a family planning movement steeped in eugenic ideology, working-class Mexican-origin women strategically demanded additional health services and then formed their own clinics to provide care on their own terms. Along the way, they developed what Murillo calls reproductive care- quotidian acts of community solidarity-as activists organized for better housing, education, wages, as well as access to birth control, abortion, and more. Centering the agency of these women and communities, Murillo lays bare Mexican-origin women's long battle for human dignity and power in the borderlands as reproductive freedom in Texas once again hangs in the balance.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781407214566
ISBN 10	140721456X
Title	THE LAND OF NURSERY RHYME
Author	Daglish Alice And Rhys Ernest; Illustrated By Charles Folkard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Orion Books
Year published	2008-01-01
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.