| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement. By Jennifer Nelson. (New York: New York University Press, 2003. xii, 225 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-5821-5. Paper, $20.00,ISBN 0-8147-5827-4.)

According to Jennifer Nelson, women in the Young Lords, a progressive Puerto Rican group in New York City, went on a no sex strike in 1970 to reinforce their demands for the inclusion of women in the leadership and for the elimination of the celebration of machismo in the Young Lords platform. After several weeks, the Young Lords added two women to the central committee and began evening seminars in which female members of the Young Lords instructed their male comrades about relating to women as equals. By 1971 the Young Lords had included a commitment to the equality of women in their platform and condemned machismo when used by men to "take out their frustrations" on women (pp. 119–20). During the next few years the Young Lords developed a comprehensive reproductive rights position that combined demands for safe, legal abortion with opposition to the health policies that resulted in the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women. The Young Lords worked in conjunction with other New York groups to demand improved health care for women in poor communities and greater access to nonpermanent birth control methods.

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