Reproductive Justice in Latin America

Abstract

This essay reviews the following works: Historia mínima de los feminismos en América Latina . By Dora Barrancos. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2020. Pp. 274. $12.13 paperback. ISBN: 9786075641850. The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s . By Paulo Drinot. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xv + 328. $31.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781108717281. Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide . Edited by Elisabeth Jay Friedman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 344. $28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781478001522. An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia . By Natalie L. Kimball. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. Pp. 374. $42.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780813590738. The Politics of Abortion in Latin America: Public Debates, Private Lives . By Jane Marcus-Delgado. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2019. Pp. 181. $79.95 hardcover. 9781626378063. Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement . By Katherine M. Marino. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. Pp. 368. $27.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781469661520. A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil . By Cassia Roth. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 376. $32.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781503611320. Demanding Justice and Security: Indigenous Women and Legal Pluralities in Latin America . Edited by Rachel Sieder. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017. Pp. 310. $38.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780813587929.