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

Author
López, Iris Ofelia
Published
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
Copyright Date
©2008
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxv, 184 pages) : genealogical tables
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Language Note
In English.
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.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9780813546247 (electronic bk.)
0813546249 (electronic bk.)
1281958816
9781281958815
081354372X
9780813543727
9780813543727 (hardover ; alk. paper)
081354372X (hardover ; alk. paper)
9780813543734 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0813543738 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index.
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