Discourses of "forced sterilization" in Puerto Rico: the problem withthe speaking subaltern.

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Despite the interventions of significant anticolonialist thinkers
like Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Trinh Minh-ha, greatest in quantity of the routine
business of feminism and sex studies goes on without asking by what mode
conceptions of nation and the "Third World" pervade diverse practices
of sex in the United States. In this article, I explore a political
movement and scholarly practice begun in the 1970 that has defied
that normative silence: the U reproductive rights move and
the political demand for an extremity to coercive sterilization in Puerto
Rico and the