Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction by Gutiérrez, Elena R.
Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction by Gutiérrez, Elena R.

Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction

While the stereotype of the persistently pregnant Mexican-origin woman is longstanding, in the past fifteen years her...
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Author: Elena R. Gutiérrez
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Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction by Gutiérrez, Elena R.

Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction

$89.65
Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction by Gutiérrez, Elena R.

Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction

$89.65
Author: Elena R. Gutiérrez
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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While the stereotype of the persistently pregnant Mexican-origin woman is longstanding, in the past fifteen years her reproduction has been targeted as a major social problem for the United States. Due to fear-fueled news reports and public perceptions about the changing composition of the nation's racial and ethnic makeup--the so-called Latinization of America--the reproduction of Mexican immigrant women has become a central theme in contemporary U. S. politics since the early 1990s.

In this exploration, Elena R. Gutiérrez considers these public stereotypes of Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women as hyper-fertile baby machines who breed like rabbits. She draws on social constructionist perspectives to examine the historical and sociopolitical evolution of these racial ideologies, and the related beliefs that Mexican-origin families are unduly large and that Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women do not use birth control.

Using the coercive sterilization of Mexican-origin women in Los Angeles as a case study, Gutiérrez opens a dialogue on the racial politics of reproduction, and how they have developed for women of Mexican origin in the United States. She illustrates how the ways we talk and think about reproduction are part of a system of racial domination that shapes social policy and affects individual women's lives.



Author: Elena R. Gutiérrez
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 01/15/2008
Pages: 221
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.02w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780292716827


Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2009

About the Author
ELENA R. GUTIÉRREZ is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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