Lina-Maria Murillo
Biographic Data
| ID | 364354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lina-Maria Murillo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lina-Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Murillo |
| SIGNATURE | MURILLO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fighting for Control
The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as well as the Catholic Church and Mexican American activists. Uncovering nearly one hund…
Fears of white population decline
In fall 2019, U.S. House of Representative Steve King (Republican) from Iowa addressed a local group of constituents by discussing his long-held beliefs about abortion, in particular his opposition towards exceptions for rape and incest. ’What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?’ he asked at the event in…
A View from Northern Mexico
Analysis for propane recovery in a planned European gas terminal indicated recovery to be most economic at 72%: recovery above that level would yield a lower rate of return and only a small increase in net present value (NPV). These results led to the decision that the gas terminal for the Britannia project in the U.K. North Sea should proceed with a flow designed for 72% propane recovery. Britannia is a $3 billion gas development project due on …
Espanta Cigüeñas
In this essay, I draw from reproductive justice theory, arguing for greater analyses of reproductive health histories through an intersectional feminist lens. Decentering US-centric reproductive rights histories and paying special attention to race, class, and gender helps unravel the intricate narrative that tied abortion providers in northern Mexico to a racialist logic of danger, dirt, and death in the years before Roe v. Wade. These logics we…
Birth Control, Border Control
Betty Mary Goetting opened the first birth control clinic on the U.S.-Mexico border in 1937. The rhetoric she used to advocate for contraception in El Paso, Texas, paralleled eugenic trends in the birth control movement nationwide, focused on curbing fertility rates among those considered of poor mind and body. Where previous studies focus on the urban North, this borderlands case study places the birth control movement’s attention to overpopulat…
Fevered Measures
Reviewed by: Fevered Measures: Public health and race at the Texas-Mexico border, 1848–1942 by John McKiernan-González Lina-Maria Murillo Fevered Measures: Public health and race at the Texas-Mexico border, 1848–1942 By John McKiernan-González. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. Current debates in California over whether to make vaccination of all school-aged children mandatory—SB277 was introduced into the California legislature in early…
Espanta Cigüeñas
In this essay, I draw from reproductive justice theory, arguing for greater analyses of reproductive health histories through an intersectional feminist lens. Decentering US-centric reproductive rights histories and paying special attention to race, class, and gender helps unravel the intricate narrative that tied abortion providers in northern Mexico to a racialist logic of danger, dirt, and death in the years before Roe v. Wade. These logics we…
Birth Control, Border Control
Betty Mary Goetting opened the first birth control clinic on the U.S.-Mexico border in 1937. The rhetoric she used to advocate for contraception in El Paso, Texas, paralleled eugenic trends in the birth control movement nationwide, focused on curbing fertility rates among those considered of poor mind and body. Where previous studies focus on the urban North, this borderlands case study places the birth control movement’s attention to overpopulat…
Fevered Measures
Reviewed by: Fevered Measures: Public health and race at the Texas-Mexico border, 1848–1942 by John McKiernan-González Lina-Maria Murillo Fevered Measures: Public health and race at the Texas-Mexico border, 1848–1942 By John McKiernan-González. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2012. Current debates in California over whether to make vaccination of all school-aged children mandatory—SB277 was introduced into the California legislature in early…
Birth Control, Border Control
Betty Mary Goetting opened the first birth control clinic on the U.S.-Mexico border in 1937. The rhetoric she used to advocate for contraception in El Paso, Texas, paralleled eugenic trends in the birth control movement nationwide, focused on curbing fertility rates among those considered of poor mind and body. Where previous studies focus on the urban North, this borderlands case study places the birth control movement’s attention to overpopulat…
A View from Northern Mexico
Analysis for propane recovery in a planned European gas terminal indicated recovery to be most economic at 72%: recovery above that level would yield a lower rate of return and only a small increase in net present value (NPV). These results led to the decision that the gas terminal for the Britannia project in the U.K. North Sea should proceed with a flow designed for 72% propane recovery. Britannia is a $3 billion gas development project due on …
Espanta Cigüeñas
In this essay, I draw from reproductive justice theory, arguing for greater analyses of reproductive health histories through an intersectional feminist lens. Decentering US-centric reproductive rights histories and paying special attention to race, class, and gender helps unravel the intricate narrative that tied abortion providers in northern Mexico to a racialist logic of danger, dirt, and death in the years before Roe v. Wade. These logics we…
Fighting for Control
The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as well as the Catholic Church and Mexican American activists. Uncovering nearly one hund…
Fears of white population decline
In fall 2019, U.S. House of Representative Steve King (Republican) from Iowa addressed a local group of constituents by discussing his long-held beliefs about abortion, in particular his opposition towards exceptions for rape and incest. ’What if we went back through all the family trees and just pulled those people out that were products of rape and incest? Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?’ he asked at the event in…
Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Abortion (2 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works)