books by Jael Silliman (trans-status reproductive perspectives)

books by Jael Silliman

books:

Dangerous Intersection: Feminism, Population and the Environment

1 review
Jael Silliman, Ynestra King

Zed Books, 2006

An eye-opener
An anthology of remarkable papers that logically dissect sexist and racist notions of population and environment. It says a lot about our alienated world that this book has no prior reviews and is ~1,600,000 down Amazon's list.

Shalom India Housing Society (Jewish Women Writers)
Esther David

The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2009

?[Esther David?s] writing is a formidable work of literary art.??Nissim Ezekiel, poet ?A poignant tale of a group never quite at home in its homeland.??Nextbook ?A nice piece of social anthropology, with a good deal of heart thrown in.?? Business Standard Over two thousand years ago, remnants of one of the lost tribes of Israel appeared on the shores of India. They became known in India as the Bene Israel and nothing has been the same ...

Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope (Brandeis Series on Jewish Women)

3 reviews
Jael Silliman

Brandeis, 2003

One Of The Best Books written on the Jews In India.
Jael Silliman has written an excellent, scholarly book on the Jewish community in India. . Her descriptions of her family elders show her love and respect for them and yet she is sensitive and kind and most of all truthful and honest. As a member of the Baghdadi Jewish community she does not put down the other Jewish Communities in India to prove her community's superiority, as several Baghdadi ...

Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development

South End Press, 1999

This collection of original critical essays by well-known feminist scholars and activists presents a multicultural, international scope on the major global issues of the day: environment, development, and population control. Dangerous Intersections provides crucial alternative voices and approaches to the short-sighted policies supported by many mainstream politicians and nongovernmental organizations policies that focus on the fertility of ...

Policing the National Body: Race, Gender and Criminalization in the United States

South End Press, 2002

Aggressive law enforcement is devastating women of color and their communities. Yet the mainstream reproductive rights movement, largely dominated by white women and consumed with protecting the right to abortion, has failed to respond adequately to the policing, criminalization, and incarceration of large numbers of poor people and people of color. Policing the National Body places issues of race, class, and gender at the center of its ...

Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia

Duke University Press, 2002

A Thai foodseller on the streets of Bangkok, a cyclo driver in a Vietnamese village, a Pahari migrant laborer in the Himalayas, a Parsi-Christian professional social worker shuttling back and forth between London and Calcutta? Trans-Status Subjects examines how these and other South and Southeast Asians affect and are affected by globalization. While much work has focused on the changes wrought by globalization?describing how people maintain ...

Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice

1 review
Jael Silliman, Marlene Gerber Fried, ...

South End Press, 2004

Freedom of choice for every woman!
This groundbreaking book documents the courageous activism of feminists of color fighting for reproductive freedom. Faced with the oftentimes blatant racism and classism of the mainstream women's movement and obstacles of sexism amongst many of the men within their racial communities, these women are bravely demanding access to abortions and an end to sterilization abuse. With the anti-choice ...