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Perpetuating neo-colonialism through population control: South Africa 
and the United States.
(women of African descent 'persuaded' to use birth control)

Kuumba, Monica Bahati. "Perpetuating neo-colonialism through population 
control: South Africa and the United States. " Africa Today. 40.n3 
(Summer 1993): 79(7). General OneFile. Gale. University of Arizona 
Library. 25 Jan. 2008

Abstract:
Population policies in the 1990s are part of the colonial legacy of the 
Third World. Women's reproductive abilities are manoeuvred in response 
to market forces. The international population strategies and programs 
have a race, class and gender bias. Africans are assumed to be 
responsible for their own poverty, so their fertility is checked without 
regard for the women's health. Coercive strategies persuade women of 
African descent in the US and in South Africa to use birth control.

Full Text:
COPYRIGHT Africa Today Associates 1993

While the process of colonialism and neo-colonialism subjugates both men 
and women, it does so in different manners. The neo-colonial 
relationship hinges on the exploitation of men's productive forces, but 
rests on the control of both the productive and reproductive forces of 
oppressed women. The current population policies and strategies of 
fertility control as promoted and orchestrated by an international 
population establishment(1) are part and parcel of the colonial legacy 
that haunts "Third World" or neo-colonized women.

According to feminist social analysts, women's productive and 
reproductive labor has been used to buttress colonial systems and 
imperialist structures, allowing for the full exploitation of male 
workers in industry.(2) The location of "Third World" women in the 
global economy has hinged around their use as cheap laborers as well as 
their ability to produce additional cheap labor. Thus, their 
reproductive capacities are manipulated in response to market forces or 
the need or lack of need for labor.

This article examines how the strategies and programs of the 
international population establishment are confounded with a race, 
class, and gender bias and, as such, perpetuate the exploitative, 
dependent, and unequal power relationship that exists in the world 
between formerly colonized and colonizers. This has been the case for 
women of African descent both on the African continent and in the 
diaspora as a comparison of the cases of South Africa and the United 
States will demonstrate.

In full: 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/1624350/Perpetuating-neocolonialism-through-population-control-South-Africa-and-the-United-States

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