Brianna Theobald, "Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019)

New Books in Indigenous Studies · Nov 25, 2019 · 41m

In Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2019), historian Brianna Theobald delivers a long-overdue, comprehensive history of Native women’s reproductive health, rights, and practices. Alternating her focus between the Crow Reservation in Montana and the experiences of Native women across the United States, Theobald shows how Native women navigated and resisted colonial attempts to restrict their bodily autonomy. By extension, argues Theobald, Native women constituted a particularly resilient…