We're Not All Anti-Choices
How Controlling Images Shape Latina/x Feminist Abortion Advocacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2363727 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rocío R García (0000-0001-8112-3632, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1208-1227 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/07311214221112623 |
| OpenAlex | W4287307079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 40 |
Reproductive politics and Latinxs' politics demonstrate a preoccupation with representations and discourses across time and space. Intersectional feminists theorize how controlling images function as mechanisms of social control by distorting holistic perceptions of marginalized people. While social movement research documents the importance of culture in collective action, little research applies a controlling images interpretive framework to social movement contexts. An important case for examining Latina/x representations is the ideological terrain created by pro-abortion Latina/x feminist advocates. Utilizing a three-year ethnography with California Latinas for Reproductive Justice (CLRJ), written materials produced by the organization, and in-depth interviews with staff, I argue that CLRJ highlights the limitations of existing research, uses feminist approaches to dialogue, and creates structural analyses of inequalities to challenge la santa (the saint), a controlling image centering cisgender mestiza and white Latinas used to assume that all Latinas make poor advocates for reproductive autonomy
Abortion · Autonomy · Economic Justice · Ethnography · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Reproductive justice · Sociology · Anthropology · Feminist Theory and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
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Fertile Matters
Dangerous Curves
Academic Profiling
Bad Boys
Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates
Domesticating Rosario
It Was Like a Fever
Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman
Latinos, Inc
Black Feminist Thought
Making Hispanics
Latina Girls' Sexual Education in the (New) Latinx Diaspora
Navigating Risk Discourses
Conundrums of Desire
Regulating the Reproduction and Mothering of Poor Women
The Orientalization of Asian women in America
Pregnancy and Power
Salvatore Morelli, John Stuart Mill and the Victorian ‘Angel of the Hearth’ Feminine Role Paradigm
Mapping the Margins
Controlling images of immigrants in the mainstream and Black press
Talking back to controlling images
Contending Stories
The Afro-Latin@ Reader
Extended Kinship in the United States
Learning from the Outsider Within
That Single-Mother Element
Truly a Women of Color Organization
The Deadly Challenges of Raising African American Boys
Now Why do you Want to Know about That
Racializing the Glass Escalator
Controlling Images and the Gender Construction of Enslaved African Women
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
The Cultural Impacts of Social Movements
Motherwork Under the State
Colorblind ideology, mass incarceration, and controlling racial images
Activating Controlling Images in the Racialized Interaction Order
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |