{"id":687,"date":"2016-10-10T00:21:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T07:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=687"},"modified":"2016-10-10T00:21:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T07:21:23","slug":"week-2-finding-aid-for-sterilization-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/10\/week-2-finding-aid-for-sterilization-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2: Finding Aid for Sterilization Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

The finding aid for \u201cVirgina Espino and Renee Tajima-Pena Collection of Sterilization Records\u201d<\/a> describes the physical records of court records from the Madrigal v. Quilligan lawsuit. The Madrigal v. Quilligan court case involved ten Latina women suing E.J Quilligan and his colleagues at the University of Southern California medical center for coercing the women to be sterilized in the mid to late 1970\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The archive is divided into two series with the first being court documents in the Madrigal v. Quilligan case. The second series consists of ten cassette tape interviews of multiple people including those involved in Latina rights movement during this time period, people involved in helping the women during the court case, and a resident at the hospital where and during the time the women were coerced into the sterilization. Based on the materials in this collection, readers are able to figure out the details of the court case narrative as well as get an understanding on how serious the case was for furthering fighting for Latina and minority women\u2019s rights in the United States.<\/p>\n

However, while the records help give readers a sense of the court case and the importance it had on the minority women rights movement, what the archive cannot provide to the narrative are the personal feelings of the women who were sterilized and how it had an impact on their future. The court documents give a technicality to these women\u2019s\u2019 cases, but not a full understanding of the long lasting psychological effects this forced medical procedure had on their well being. The records also cannot fully illustrate the prejudice in the mind of the doctors who sterilized these women. The court documents can display justifications the doctors used as excuses, but justifications are only the words the doctors want the public to hear. Through selective wording, the defendants and their lawyers were able to twist the case\u2019s narrative in their favor, as the Latina women lost the case.<\/p>\n

In order to remedy the missing information, interviewing the women or the women\u2019s family involved in the cases would help readers understand the pain. In the finding aid, it was mentioned how the documents were used in the documentary No M\u00e1s Beb\u00e9s<\/strong>.<\/a> With further research, I was able to find out that Renee Tajima-Pena not only used the documents to illustrate the court case and its effects on the Latina rights movement, she also interviewed some of the women in the court case and how it had an effect on their personal lives. However, even if someone were to interview the doctors, they could still deny they had any prejudice against the women and continue on with their narrative of the story. Thus, it is nearly impossible to fully illustrate this narrative, as it is so easy for these doctors to keep up their innocent image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The finding aid for \u201cVirgina Espino and Renee Tajima-Pena Collection of Sterilization Records\u201d describes the physical records of court records from the Madrigal v. Quilligan lawsuit. The Madrigal v. Quilligan … Continue reading “Week 2: Finding Aid for Sterilization Records”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}