[Sehefac] Chikako in the news

[Michelle Raheja]

Congratulations, Chikako!  This is awesome.

Best,
Michelle

On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 8:45 AM Dana Simmons via Sehefac <
sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
> Celebrating Chikako, who is extensively quoted in this piece in *Slate* about
> the IUD:
> https://slate.com/technology/2024/06/birth-control-hormonal-side-effects-iud-dalkon-shield.html
> "The development of the modern IUD is inextricably linked to the
> population control movement, as Chikako Takeshita documents in her book *The
> Global Biopolitics of the IUD*. In the 1950s, governments, international
> organizations, and wealthy funders began to fret over a “population
> explosion in the global South,” she writes. This, in their minds, could
> cause all sorts of problems: hunger, environmental destruction, political
> unrest, communism—all the way up to nuclear war...."
> Congrats, Chikako, and thanks for this intervention!
> Dana
>
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> Dana Simmons
> Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and
> Health Equity
> Cooperating Faculty, Department of History
> University of California, Riverside
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