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ILGWU - ANSWER International Ladies Garment
Workers Union; consists of black and Puerto Rican women;
contributes to the exploitation of this country by not fully
representing the best interests of its members; unions like
this have been known to uphold racism in this country
Salpingectomy - ANSWER the surgical removal of the
fallopian tube; black women were much more encouraged to
be sterilized than white women were due to hierarchy and
eugenics
tubal ligation - ANSWER a permanent form of birth
control; socially known as getting your "tubes tied"; where
the fallopian tubes in the uterus are being cut, tied, or
blocked
Young Lords - ANSWER a revolutionary civil rights group;
talked about Puerto Rican independence, freedom of
political prisoners, and withdrawal of military troops from
Puerto Rico, Vietnam, and other areas
threefold oppression - ANSWER First, the oppression
under capitalism that affects everyone in the Third World;
Secondly, the oppression under capitalism that affects
, women in terms of jobs and stuff like that; and Thirdly, the
oppression received from men.
reproductive justice - ANSWER the human right to
maintain personal bodily autonomy, to have or not have
children, to parent the children we have in safe and
sustainable communities, to have access to reproductive
healthcare, to have access to birth control and other
contraceptives, to have access to safe and sterile abortions
informed consent - ANSWER permission granted in the
knowledge of the possible consequences; occurs typically
when consent in given by a patient to a doctor of treatment
with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits
The Washington Consensus - ANSWER Set of economic
policy recommendations for developing countries (Latin
America in Particular). Neoliberal; asserted that the
operation of the free market and reduction of state
involvement were key to developing the global south.
Structural adjustment - ANSWER privatizing a water
company or gas organization. Loans provided by the
International Monetary Fund and World Bank to countries
in economic crisis. Kept nations poor as they had to make
income sacrifices in order to pay off loans.
Radical orientalism - ANSWER came out of the VWU
group of asian and asian american women that fought