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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The globalization of sterilization
  • The birth control movement in Puerto Rico
  • Gender awareness across generations
  • Cultural continuities and urban change
  • The Velez family: poverty, the cancer scare, and hysterectomies
  • The Robles family: social change and gender struggle
  • The Gomez family: under the knife again-reversing la operación
  • The Morales and Rivera families: tough love and sterile choices
  • Reproductive rights and an integral model of reproductive freedom
  • Ideologies and inequities in the health care system
  • Toward an integral model of reproductive freedom.

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