Françoise Vergès examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Réunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.

Preface  ix
Translator's Introduction  xiii
Introduction  1
1. The Island of Doctor Moreau  1
2. The Rhetoric of "Impossible Development": Dependency, Repression, and Anticolonial Struggle  29
3. The Wombs of Black Women, Capitalism, and the International Division of Labor  49
4. "The Future Is Elsewhere"  63
5. French Feminist Blindness: Race, Coloniality, Capitalism  89
Conclusion: Repoliticizing Feminism  115
Notes  125
Index  157