Full Description
Disguised as a family planning program during Peru's internal armed conflict, a campaign was launched by the government of Alberto Fujimori that resulted in the forced sterilization of thousands of women of poor, rural, and Indigenous-language-speaking backgrounds. Together We Fight explores Indigenous and non-Indigenous women's brutal experiences of forced sterilizations and their subsequent activism for reproductive rights and justice. Drawing on a vast trove of first-person testimony, Ñusta Carranza Ko highlights the understudied voices of victim-survivors, unpacking their ideas of justice and examining the work of allies that have accompanied them in their activism. Focusing on the stories, struggles, and lived experiences of victim-survivors, Carranza Ko argues that the campaign was genocidal.
Contents
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Racialized Gender-Based Violence in Peru
Chapter 1. Gender, Class, and Ethnicity: The Politics of Victimhood
Chapter 2. Indigenous Women and the Genocide: Peru's Coercive Sterilization of Indigenous Women
Chapter 3. Then, There Were the Children . . .
Chapter 4. The Other Victims: Victoria Vigo's Story
Chapter 5. Together We Fight: Role of Activists and Allies in the Fight Against Impunity
Conclusion: Justice, Reproductive Rights, and What Remains
Bibliography
Index
