Featured Book Review
Natalie Lira on Lina-Maria Murillo’s *Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands*
Powerfully written and rigorously researched, Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands, offers readers a historical analysis of birth control layered upon compelling theoretical insights that expand our understanding of population control, reproductive oppression and struggles for bodily autonomy in the United States. In this fascinating history, Lina-Maria Murillo embraces a reproductive justice framework, decentering movements for legal rights to contraception or abortion, and focusing instead on the dynamics of power that informed the ideologies and actions of the book’s multiple stakeholders, including white birth control activists, the Catholic Church, Mexican-origin women and Chicanas, and Read more
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