TY  - GEN
T1  - Reproductive justice : the politics of health care for Native American women
A1  - Gurr, Barbara Anne
LA  - English
PP  - New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London
PB  - Rutgers University Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn896872916
AB  - In Reproductive Justice, sociologist Barbara Gurr provides the first analysis of Native American women's reproductive healthcare and offers a sustained consideration of the movement for reproductive justice in the United States. The book examines the reproductive healthcare experiences on Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota--where Gurr herself lived for more than a year. Gurr paints an insightful portrait of the Indian Health Service (IHS)--the federal agency tasked with providing culturally appropriate, adequate healthcare to Native Americans--shedding much-needed light on Native American women's efforts to obtain prenatal care, access to contraception, abortion services, and access to care after sexual assault. Reproductive Justice goes beyond this local story to look more broadly at how race, gender, sex, sexuality, class, and nation inform the ways in which the government understands reproductive healthcare and organizes the delivery of this care. It reveals why the basic experience of reproductive healthcare for most Americans is so different--and better--than for Native American women in general, and women in reservation communities particularly. Finally, Gurr outlines the strengths that these communities can bring to the creation of their own reproductive justice, and considers the role of IHS in fostering these strengths as it moves forward in partnership with Native nations.
OP  - 199
CN  - RG121 .G87 2015eb
SN  - 9780813564708
SN  - 0813564700
SN  - 9780813564692
SN  - 0813564697
SN  - 9780813564685
SN  - 0813564689
KW  - United States : Indian Health Service
KW  - Indian women : Health and hygiene : United States.
KW  - Reproductive health : United States.
KW  - Indians of North America : Health and hygiene : United States.
KW  - Indians of North America.
KW  - Reproductive rights.
KW  - Women : Health and hygiene.
KW  - Reproductive Health Services : organization & administration
KW  - Healthcare Disparities
KW  - Indians, North American
KW  - Reproductive Rights
KW  - Women's Health
KW  - United States
KW  - Femmes des Peuples autochtones : Santé et hygiène : États-Unis.
KW  - Santé de la reproduction : États-Unis.
KW  - Peuples autochtones : Amérique du Nord.
KW  - Droits génésiques.
KW  - Femmes : Santé et hygiène.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Social Security.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Social Services & Welfare.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Women's Studies.
KW  - Women : Health and hygiene
KW  - Reproductive rights
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Indian women : Health and hygiene
KW  - Indians of North America : Health and hygiene
KW  - Reproductive health
KW  - Electronic books.
ER  -