The Afterlife of Slavery and the Problem of Reproductive Freedom
Abstract
This article explores the historical continuity between women’s sexual and reproductive exploitation in chattel slavery and in contemporary biocapitalism. It theorizes the centrality of the exploitation of the reproductive body and reproductive processes to the long history of racial capitalism and examines neoliberalism’s role in co-opting and obscuring insurgency against such exploitation. It suggests that black feminist speculative fiction by...
Paper Details
Title
The Afterlife of Slavery and the Problem of Reproductive Freedom
Published Date
Jan 1, 2013
Journal
Volume
31
Issue
2
Pages
49 - 68
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