Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization in the United States PDF
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EDITED BY JAEL SILLIMAN AND A PROJECT OF THE C ANANNYA BHATTACHARJEE ON WOMEN, POPULATII AND THE ENVIRONMEN THE NATIONAL BODY RACE, GENDER, AND CRIMINALIZATION Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation _7 fo _en https://archive.org/details/policingnationalO000unse POLICING THE © NATIONAL BODY POLICING THE NATIONAL BODY Sex, Race, and Criminalization Edited by Jael Silliman and Anannya Bhattacharjee A Project of the Committee on Women, = South End Press Cambridge, Massachusetts Copyright © 2002 byJ ael Silliman and Anannya Bhattacharjee Any properly footnoted quotation of up to 500 sequential words may be used without permission, as long as the total number of words quoted does not exceed 2,000. For longer quotations or for a greater number of total words, please write to South End Press for permission. Cover design by Ellen Shapiro. Printed in Canada by Transcontinental Printing. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002100658 ISBN 0-89608-660-7 (paper) ISBN 0-89608-661-5 (cloth) South End Press, 7 Brookline Street, #1, Cambridge, MA 02139-4146 www.southendpress.org 07 06 05 04 03 254> G Table of Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction Policing the National Body: Sex, Race, and Criminalization Jael Silliman ix Private Fists and Public Force: Race, Gender, and Surveillance Anannya Bhattacharjee 1 Killing the Black Community: A Commentary on the United States War on Drugs Judith A.M. Scully 55) Speaking Out Against State Violence: Activist HIV-Positive Women Prisoners Redefine Social Justice Cynthia Chandler and Carol Kingery 81 Abortion in the United States: Barriers to Access Marlene Gerber Fried 103 Better Dead than Pregnant: The Colonization of Native Women’s Reproductive Health Andrea Smith 123 Just Choices: Women of Color, Reproductive Health, and Human Rights LorettaJ .R oss, Sarah L. Brownlee, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Luz Rodriquez, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Project 147 The Gendered Assault on Immigrants Syd Lindsley 15 8 Put in Harm’s Way: The Neglected Health Consequences of Sex Trafficking in the United States H. Patricia Hynes and Janice G. Raymond 1o7 9 Superpredator Meets Teenage Mom: Exploding the Myth of the Out-of-Control Youth Anne Hendrixson 254 10 The Changing Faces of Population Control Betsy Hartmann 259) 11 Greening the Swastika: Nativism and Anti-Semitism in the Population and Environment Debate Rajani Bhatia 291 Afterword Reflections on Post-September 11 America: An Interview with Angela Y. Davis Anannya Bhattacharjee and Jael Silliman 325 Appendix aye) Index oo! About the Contributors 349 About South End Press DIO Related Titles 354 Acknowledgments W: would like to thank the members of the Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment (CWPE), the contributors to this volume, and our allies and friends for shar- ing their political analysis and insights with us. A sincere thank you to Lynn Lu, formerly of South End Press, for encouraging us to go ahead with this anthology. We also thank Sonia Shah and Loie Hayes for their work on developing the framework for the book. Tina Beyene, also of South End, served as our key edi- tor and was a wonderful ally to work with to bring this effort to conclusion. Fiona Young, graduate student at the University of Iowa, was very helpful in coordinating the work of the various contributors at the early stages of this project. Melissa Deem, Natasa Durovicova, Maureen McCue, Susan Schechter and Rosemarie Scullion provided critical reading and insights at var- ious phases of the project. Rosalind Petchesky and Melissa Deem were both helpful in brainstorming the title with us. We thank Angela Davis for her contribution to this book, for her courageous commitment, and her long and impressive history of activism to promote civil liberties, and to advance gender, ra- cial, and social justice. Our sincere thanks also go to Amitava Bhattacharjee, Shikha Bhattacharjee, and S. Shankar for the many discussions we had regarding the book and for their read- ings of the manuscript. ope adh mr an Preowned adPe eskin tai harden aoeMeh er ope e anon ee ae iet n a ab sabres p> vores auntypeaelTse -. ive ‘nadia ass aling silt }O Sages: Lyanhislligiilo® msde. ea” nse arose a rata@tly ra basq uien apis’ bobiving mnillase stai<na Len iabets @hadeafiabationt 299604 st Yo ar SV obs tn Meinade Qalawed> cmd i Aine ghee: vad.+ pa owieh nial OmM ibydiace sad yA giveCla t erthvasl aves wefan. bre ws salb onr stesonened » hy, ht) s7ne been been eaithoat Uneds eovenrmyerney rtrteek viy vey otinkah of op aig edna eS wat) eure leinge L ' oft aay | ecard? & bah - spahennled wolaaelit vabadan ‘gar diets 10 hug dowel aedy visikonigges bailw we ’
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