Donna J. Drucker, Contraception, A Concise History

Reproductive justice and the Figure of the Child: The multiple harms of forced sterilization and abortion in Peru

“…Historian Donna Drucker's discussion on legal redress is exemplary. Fujimori, she reminds us, is currently in detention for corruption and human rights violation charges—although it is important to clarify not for the forced sterilization case—“but his punishment does not restore victim's fertility” (Drucker, 2020, 63). Her statement centers on infertility as the main harm, erasing all the others we just mentioned that constitute major issues survivors have had to negotiate and live within the afterlife of sterilization abuse.…”

Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics By Krystale E.Littlejohn. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. pp. 184

“…Hormonal contraception is often described as a means for self‐efficacy and liberation for women, by providing autonomy over pregnancy decisions and outcomes, yet scholars using a reproductive justice framework have challenged this assumption (Drucker, 2020). Littlejohn's argument about gendered compulsory birth control asserts that these presumed benefits can become harms as women are socialized into accepting primary responsibility for using hormonal birth control and bearing the burden of preventing pregnancy.…”