<div dir="ltr">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!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 9:45 AM Jade Sasser via Sehefac <<a href="mailto:sehefac@lists.ucr.edu">sehefac@lists.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Congratulations, Chikako!! 🎉<div><br id="m_7032649194476351850lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Jade S. Sasser, PhD<div>Associate Professor </div><div>University of California, Riverside </div><div><a href="http://jadesasserphd.com" target="_blank">jadesasserphd.com</a></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 27, 2024, at 8:45 AM, Dana Simmons via Sehefac <<a href="mailto:sehefac@lists.ucr.edu" target="_blank">sehefac@lists.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div>Celebrating Chikako, who is extensively quoted in this piece in <i>Slate</i> about the IUD: <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2024/06/birth-control-hormonal-side-effects-iud-dalkon-shield.html" target="_blank">https://slate.com/technology/2024/06/birth-control-hormonal-side-effects-iud-dalkon-shield.html</a></div><div>"The development of the modern IUD is inextricably linked to the population control movement, as Chikako Takeshita documents in her book <i>The Global Biopolitics of the IUD</i>. 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...." </div><div>Congrats, Chikako, and thanks for this intervention!</div><div>Dana<br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dana Simmons</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Society, Environment and Health Equity</span></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Cooperating Faculty, Department of History</span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Riverside</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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