Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America
The Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru

By (author) Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago

ISBN13: 9781529236057

Imprint: Bristol University Press

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Format: Hardback

Published: 15/10/2025

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Description
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, this book analyses how Indigenous peasant women who have experienced reproductive violence describe the harms of forced sterilization and the complexities of using human and reproductive rights frameworks to make their experiences visible through law and activism. The author argues that the focus on individual choice and fertility creates dissonances and hierarchies of discourse that ultimately displace women’s embodied experiences of reproductive violence that do not fit within a repronormative framework. Introducing dissonance as a decolonial feminist methodology, the book explores how colonial, racialized, and gendered histories shape legal and experiential incommensurability. As the first ethnography on sterilization cases in Peru, it contributes to social studies of reproduction, Latin American studies, and decolonial feminisms.
Introduction. Toward a Decolonial Critique of Reproductive Rights 1. “Masters of Their Own Destiny”: Women’s Rights and Forced Sterilizations in Peru 2. The Grammar of Reproductive Violence: Ya No Tenemos Fuerza and Debilitating Lifeworlds 3. The Grammar of Reproductive Violence: Alteraciones, Animal Analogies, and the Reconstitution of Lifeworlds 4. Performing Memory, Reproducing Invisibility: Feminist Reproductive Activism 5. The Bureaucratization of Harm Conclusion: Current Reverberations of the Coloniality of Reproduction
  • Human reproduction, growth & development
  • Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
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