Matters of Choice : Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom /

Show other versions (2)
Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: López, Iris Ofelia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poor > Puerto Rico.
Poor women > Puerto Rico > Social conditions.
Reproductive rights > Puerto Rico > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items