[Sehefac] Chikako in the news

[Jade Sasser]

Congratulations, Chikako!! 🎉

Jade S. Sasser, PhD
Associate Professor 
University of California, Riverside 
jadesasserphd.com

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