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The First Birth Control Pill Used Puerto Rican Women as Guinea Pigs
WomenEugenics and unethical clinical trials are part of the pill’s legacy.
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Herstory: 10 Puerto Rican Women Kept Out of History Books
History, WomenLatinas in the U.S. come from a long line of influential, barrier-breaking, rebel Latin American women. Through Remezcla’s Herstory series, we introduce readers to the women warriors and pioneers whose legacies we carry on.
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Women and the Puerto Rican Labor Movement
Labor movement, Sterilization, Women
MILAGROS DENIS AND RACHEL POOLEY
In December 1898, at the close of the Spanish-American War, Spain surrendered control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States. Though Cuba achieved nominal independence in 1902, in 1917 Puerto…
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Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Magazine, Eleanor Roosevelt
Labor movement, WomenEleanor Roosevelt, "Puerto Rican Labor Movement: Magazine," 1934, Children and Youth in History
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Whose Legacy?: Voicing Women’s Rights from the 1870s to the 1930s
WomenIn 1990 I interviewed Puerto Rican women--feminist critics, sociologists, and writers--for a project on Caribbean women's discourse.
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The Dark History of Forced Sterilization of Latina Women
Sterilization, WomenBetween 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.