Cuerpa Politica
Cuerpa Politica is a podcast about reproductive health, politics, and justice in Latin America, funded by the Institute of Latin American Studies and co-hosted by, Dr Rebecca Ogden, lecturer in Latin American studies at the University of Kent and Dr R. Sanchez-Rivera, Research Fellow in Gonville & Caius College and Affiliate Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Cuerpa Politica explores reproduction in Latin America through a series of conversations with activists, practitioners, artists, and researchers working in many different contexts.
Cuerpa Politica
Histories of racism and reproductive freedom at the US-Mexico border. With Dr Lina-Maria Murillo
February 03, 2022
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Dr R. Sanchez-Rivera and Dr Rebecca Ogden
Dr Lina-Maria Murillo is an Assistant Professor in the Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies and History Department at the University of Iowa. Her work focuses on the intersections of reproductive freedom, race, gender, class, and sexuality, as well as immigration and Latinx subjectivities. She is currently completing her manuscript titled Fighting for Control: Reproductive Care, Race, and Power in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. In this episode, we discuss her research into the twentieth century history of the birth control movement in El Paso, how the threat of ‘Mexicanization’ of Texas was articulated, and the role of eugenic feminism in birth control at the borderland.