Together We Fight

Disguised as a family planning program during Peru's internal armed conflict, a campaign was launched by the government of Alberto Fujimori that resulted in the forced sterilization of thousands of women of poor, rural, and Indigenous-language-speaking backgrounds. Together We Fight explores Indigenous and non-Indigenous women's brutal experiences of forced sterilizations and their subsequent activism for reproductive rights and justice. Drawing on a vast trove of first-person testimony, Ñusta Carranza Ko highlights the understudied voices of victim-survivors, unpacking their ideas of justice and examining the work of allies that have accompanied them in their activism. Focusing on the stories, struggles, and lived experiences of victim-survivors, Carranza Ko argues that the campaign was genocidal.

Ñusta Carranza Ko is Associate Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Baltimore.
 

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: Peru’s Coercive Sterilization of Indigenous Women
Chapter 3. Then, There Were the Children . . .
Chapter 4. The Other Victims: Victoria Vigo’s 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