Matters of Choice for a book lover distribution by Rutgers University Press in date 2008-12-10 is very good for you if you search book quote Social Science / Anthropology / General, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, . for a book lover composed by Iris Lopez, with count of page 208 Pages. you can look book description at the bottom
Buy Matters of Choice Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom full pages
ISBN: 9780813546247
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 women from five different families in Brooklyn, Lopez untangles the interplay between how women make fertility decisions and their social, economic, cultural, and historical constraints. Weaving together the voices of these women, she covers the history of sterilization and eugenics, societal pressures to have fewer children, a lack of adequate health care, patterns of gender inequality, and misinformation provided by doctors and family members.
Lopez makes a stirring case for a model of reproductive freedom, taking readers beyond victim/agent debates to consider a broader definition of reproductive rights within a feminist anthropological context.
Matters of Choice
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