Author Pages | Jael Silliman
Biography
Jael Silliman has been an activist both in the US and international women’s health and reproductive justice movements. She was a program officer at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, an early supporter of organizations of women of color. She was an associate professor of women’s studies at the University of Iowa, where she wrote about social movements, women’s health, and reproductive rights. Currently an independent consultant, for six years she was the program officer for reproductive rights in the Human Rights Unit at the Ford Foundation. Her other books include Policing the National Body: Race, Gender, and Criminalization, co-edited with Anannya Bhattacharjee, and Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope. She is from India and is an immigrant to the US.
South End Press titles by Jael Silliman
Undivided Rights
Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice |
Dangerous Intersections
Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development |
Undivided Rights
Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice |
Policing the National Body
Race, Gender and Criminalization |
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Dangerous Intersections
Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment, and Development |
Policing the National Body
Race, Gender and Criminalization |