Julieta Chaparro-Buitrago

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America examines forced sterilisation through various registers, from the ways women speak about reproductive abuse to urban feminist activism and bureaucratic responses. The author argues that a hierarchy of discourse shapes the dominant understanding of reproductive abuse, rooted in repronormativity. This focus often overlooks other harms, such as loss...