[Sehefac] Chikako in the news

[Allison Hedge Coke]

Fabulous work!

On Friday, June 28, 2024, Cassia Roth via Sehefac <sehefac at lists.ucr.edu>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>> --
>> 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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