During Peru's internal armed conflict, the government of Alberto Fujimori launched a campaigndisguised as a family planning programthat resulted in the forced sterilization of thousands of women of poor, rural, and Indigenouslanguagespeaking backgrounds. Together We Fight explores Indigenous and nonIndigenous women's brutal experiences of forced sterilization and their subsequent activism for reproductive rights and justice. Ñusta Carranza Ko draws on a vast trove of first-person testimony to amplify the neglected voices of victimsurvivors, unpacking their ideas of justice and examining the work of allies that have accompanied them in their activism. Focusing on these women's stories and struggles, she argues that the campaign was genocidal.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Racialized Gender-Based Violence in Peru
Chapter
1. Gender, Class, and Ethnicity: The Politics of Victimhood
Chapter
2. Indigenous Women and the Genocide: Perus Coercive Sterilization
of Indigenous Women
Chapter
3. Then, There Were the Children . . .
Chapter
4. The Other Victims: Victoria Vigos Story
Chapter
5. Together We Fight: Role of Activists and Allies in the Fight
Against Impunity
Conclusion: Justice, Reproductive Rights, and What Remains
Bibliography
Index
Ñusta Carranza Ko is Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore.
