Agent Orange, Women of the Resistance and Reproductive Rights: A Tale of Deliberate Human and Environmental Devastation in Vietnam

Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

doi:10.1007/978-981-33-6884-2_23

Agent Orange, Women of the Resistance and Reproductive Rights: A Tale of Deliberate Human and Environmental Devastation in Vietnam

Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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Between 1961 and 1971 millions of tonnes of chemical defoliant code name Agent Orange were sprayed onto the forests and cultivable land in both Central and Southern Viet Nam in the focal points of resistance against the occupying US forces. The policy was to remove the dense forest coverage which hid the members of the People’s Army of Viet Nam and destroy the land and crops feeding the Viet Nam population. The devastation which ensued involved severely damaging not only the land on which the population depended but also the capacity of men and women to reproduce the next generation. Here we consider Shiva’s arguments with respect to the bifurcation of the control of human beings and their physical and biological reproduction. This chapter will focus principally on the experience of women of the resistance in attempting to avoid chemical contamination and its impact on their lives and those of their family and community in the post war period.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships
Subtitle of host publication	Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions
Editors	Janet McIntyre-Mills, Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer Nature
Chapter	23
Pages	537-551
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-33-6884-2
ISBN (Print)	978-981-33-6883-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6884-2_23
Publication status	Published - 2021

Publication series

Name	Contemporary Systems Thinking
ISSN (Print)	1568-2846

Keywords

Women
Resistance
Destruction
Agent Orange
Chemical warfare
Justice
Human rights

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Corcoran-Nantes, Y. (2021). Agent Orange, Women of the Resistance and Reproductive Rights: A Tale of Deliberate Human and Environmental Devastation in Vietnam. In J. McIntyre-Mills, & Y. Corcoran-Nantes (Eds.), From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships: Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions (pp. 537-551). (Contemporary Systems Thinking). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6884-2_23

Corcoran-Nantes, Yvonne. / Agent Orange, Women of the Resistance and Reproductive Rights : A Tale of Deliberate Human and Environmental Devastation in Vietnam. From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships: Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions. editor / Janet McIntyre-Mills ; Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes. Singapore : Springer Nature, 2021. pp. 537-551 (Contemporary Systems Thinking).

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Corcoran-Nantes, Y 2021, Agent Orange, Women of the Resistance and Reproductive Rights: A Tale of Deliberate Human and Environmental Devastation in Vietnam. in J McIntyre-Mills & Y Corcoran-Nantes (eds), From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships: Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions. Contemporary Systems Thinking, Springer Nature, Singapore, pp. 537-551. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6884-2_23

Agent Orange, Women of the Resistance and Reproductive Rights: A Tale of Deliberate Human and Environmental Devastation in Vietnam. / Corcoran-Nantes, Yvonne.
From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships: Re-Generation of the Commons in the Era of Mass Extinctions. ed. / Janet McIntyre-Mills; Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes. Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021. p. 537-551 (Contemporary Systems Thinking).

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Agent Orange, Women of the Resistance and Reproductive Rights: A Tale of Deliberate Human and Environmental Devastation in Vietnam

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