Leandra Hinojosa Hernández - Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Américas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hernndez, Leandra Hinojosa, author. | Upton, Sarah De Los Santos, author.

Title: Challenging reproductive control and gendered violence in the Americas : intersectionality, power, and struggles for rights / Leandra Hinojosa Hernndez and Sarah De Los Santos Upton.

Description: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018] | Series: Lexington studies in health communication | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018009704 (print) | LCCN 2018007784 (ebook) | ISBN 9781498542586 (Electronic) | ISBN 9781498542579 (cloth : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Reproductive rights--America. | Women--Violence against--America. | Feminism--America.

Classification: LCC HQ766 (print) | LCC HQ766 .H47 2018 (ebook) | DDC 363.9/6097--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018009704

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Printed in the United States of America

This book is dedicated to our mothers

Ernestine and Dalia

And to our grandmothers

Maria del Pilar, Beatriz, Marilynn, and Isabel

Who have served as our primary models for what it
means to be strong mothers and strong feminists

In her foundational book on abortion rhetoric, Celeste Michelle Condit (1990) began her preface with the statement, Unlike so many books these days, this work was not supported by foundations or time off from teaching or other outside aid. As a consequence, the extra effort had to come out of the lives of my friends, colleagues, and family (p. ix). Similarly, we completed this book with no grants or awards, no research assistance stipends, and no course releases. As such, this book was a labor of love. The age-old saying It takes a village to raise a child encapsulated our writing process, as it did indeed take a village of support and love to facilitate the completion of this book project amidst unexpected twists and turns at every stage of the writing process. Before we discuss our individual acknowledgments, we would like to thank Nicolette Amstutz, our editor at Lexington Books, and the editorial staff for their valuable assistance and support throughout this process. We would also like to thank Dr. Michelle Holling for her detailed and supportive feedback on earlier versions of chapters 4 and 5, which were presented at the 2017 National Communication Association conference. Finally, we extend our deepest gratitude to our anonymous manuscript reviewer for their thorough comments, which strengthened our argument and our vision for the book.

This book would have been impossible to complete without the support of my mentors, colleagues, friends, and family members. First, I would like to thank Drs. Martha Haun and Jill Yamasaki of the University of Houston for their continued support during my masters program and for assistance in the construction of the foundation for my future career, scholarship, and research interests. Second, I would like to thank my doctoral committee members at Texas A&M University for fostering many of the feminist and reproductive health ideas that served as the inspiration for this book. Drs. Richard L. Street, Jr., Tasha Dubriwny, Antonio La Pastina, and Joan Wolf, thank you for your continued support and friendship, even when I struggled to reconcile my interests in patient-provider communication, womens health, and feminist studies. (Its all so clear now.) Third, I would like to thank my dear friends and colleagues who provided continuous and valuable support in writing groups, coffee outings, and hiking/climbing trips. Brianna Codallos, Renee Hudson, Stephanie Gomez Menzies, and Marcella Rojas, thank you for your enlightening conversations, your friendship, and for keeping the good fight alive. Fourth, I would like to thank Sarah, my coauthor, for being the silver lining to my grey cloud and my blessing in disguise. Working with you on this book project has been so rewarding. Thank you for your friendship, your support, your sisterhood, and for being my work wife, especially when I asked you to join this book project near the end due to unforeseen circumstances, which changed the entire direction of the book (for the better).