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Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973-2005

In this article, researchers Lynn M. Paltrow, from National Advocates for Pregnant Women, and Jeanne Flavin, from Fordham University report and analyze on 413 cases from 1973 to 2005 in which a woman’s pregnancy was a necessary factor leading to attempted and actual deprivations of a woman’s physical liberty. Download here 

The Latin American Green Tide. Desire and Feminist Transversality

by Cecilia Palmeiro

An essay about popular feminism in Latiamerica today. “A popular feminism, of the streets, of the favelas, of blackness, of queerness, of youth, against militarisation and the war on drugs — a micropolitics that is beginning to find its way into macropolitics.” Download here