[Sehefac] Chikako in the news

[Cassia Roth]

Yes congrats Chikako! I've been a fan of this book for a long time, and I'm
glad it's being featured in Slate!

On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 9:45 AM Jade Sasser via Sehefac <
sehefac at lists.ucr.edu> wrote:

> 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:
>
> 
> 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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