Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America

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'Such a timely and humanizing offering to counter the current repressive historical moment in Peru and beyond! This impressively nuanced and multi-sited ethnography uplifts Indigenous peasant women's understandings of their varied experiences with forced sterilization, thereby expanding the coloniality of gender critique to include reproduction.' Pascha Bueno-Hansen, University of Delaware 'A necessary book about a shameful and unpunished event. The book not only provides a critique of human and reproductive rights but also brings us closer to the feelings and thoughts of the victims, recognizing their agency.' Margara Millan, National Autonomous University of Mexico 'This pathbreaking study of Peru's unprecedented sterilization campaign offers a bold new take on the intersection of reproductive violence, feminist activism and the reproductive justice movement. Introducing the concept of reproductive grammars to structure her brilliantly insightful ethnographic account, Chaparro-Buitrago has produced a truly transformative and vital account of contemporary reproductive politics.' Sarah Franklin, University of Cambridge