Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism

Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s-1980s)

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ID3579726
AuthorsMaud Anne Bracke (0000-0002-9394-5673, University of Glasgow, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume72
Issue4
Pages878-898
Publication date2024-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00380261241258614
OpenAlexW4403216041
LanguageEN
References cited31

This article sheds new light on the history of French feminism during the crucial period between the 1960s and 1980s, and it does by so opening up the range of actors as well as the geography and chronology considered. More specifically, it reconsiders the battles for reproductive rights: the liberalisation of contraception in 1967 and of abortion in 1975. Focusing on the perspective of those sitting on the margins of reproductive citizenship and of the standard narratives of the feminist movement - immigrant women and their organisations in France, and civil society groups in the Overseas Departments ( Départements d'Outre-Mer, DOMs) - as well as addressing the distinct reproductive regimes in the DOMs, allows for a reconsideration of French post-war pronatalism, and breaks away from what has long been the standard narrative of Western 'second-wave feminism', globalising and de-centring its history

Feminism · Political science · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Sociology · Demography · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes

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