Matters of choice : Puerto Rican women's struggle for reproductive freedom /

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Sterilization remains one of the most popular forms of fertility control in the world, but it has received little acknowledgment for decreasing birthrates on account of its dubious use as a means of population control, especially in developing countries. In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: López, Iris Ofelia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Reproductive rights > Puerto Rico > History.
Poor women > Puerto Rico > Social conditions.
Poor > Puerto Rico.
Droits génésiques > Porto Rico > Histoire.
Femmes pauvres > Porto Rico > Conditions sociales.
Pauvres > Porto Rico.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Poor
Poor women > Social conditions
Reproductive rights
Puerto Rico
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Sterilization remains one of the most popular forms of fertility control in the world, but it has received little acknowledgment for decreasing birthrates on account of its dubious use as a means of population control, especially in developing countries. In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women. Drawing upon her twenty-five years of research on sterilized Puerto Rican wo.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxv, 184 pages) : genealogical tables
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index.
ISBN:9780813546247
0813546249
1281958816
9781281958815
081354372X
9780813543727

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