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Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Magazine, Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt, "Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Magazine," 1934, Children and Youth in History

Whose Legacy?: Voicing Women’s Rights from the 1870s to the 1930s

In 1990 I interviewed Puerto Rican women--feminist critics, sociologists, and writers--for a project on Caribbean women's discourse.

The Dark History of Forced Sterilization of Latina Women

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Between the 1930s and the 1970s, approximately one-third of the female population of Puerto Rico was sterilized, making it highest rate of sterilization in the world.