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Choice & coercion : birth control, sterilization, and abortion in public health and welfare /

This book situates North Carolina's reproductive politics in a national and global context. It demonstrates how each method for limiting unwanted pregnancies had the potential both to expand and to limit women's reproductive choices. Schoen's study allows deeper understandings of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schoen, Johanna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
Colección:Gender & American culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : a great thing for poor folks
  • Teaching birth control on Tobacco Road and in Mill Village Alley : the history of public birth control services
  • Nothing is removed except the possibility of parenthood : women and the politics of sterilization
  • I knew that it was a serious crime : negotiating abortion before Roe v. Wade
  • Taking foam powder and jellies to the natives : family planning goes abroad
  • Epilogue : from the footnotes to the headlines : sterilization apologies and their lessons.