[Sehefac] Chikako in the news

[Bronwyn Leebaw]

Awesome! Very cool Chikako!!

On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 9:57 AM Michelle Raheja via Sehefac <
sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>
>> --
>> 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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