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Author Rodriguez, Sarah Mellors, author.

Title Reproductive realities in modern China : birth control and abortion, 1911-2021 / Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, Missouri State University
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China
Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China.
Contents Building a Fitter Nation: Eugenics, Birth Control, and Abortion in Public Discourse, 1911-1949 -- Birth Control in Practice: Emmenagogues, Contraceptives, and Abortions, 1911-1949 -- Reaping the Fruits of Women's Labor: Birth Control in the Early PRC, 1939-1958 -- "Birth Planning Has Many Benefits": Weaving Family Planning into the Fabric of Everyday Life, 1959-1965 -- Controlling Sex and Reproduction Across the Urban-Rural Divide, 1966-1979 -- The Rise and Demise of the One Child Policy, 1979-2015 -- Epilogue: Birth Control and Abortion in the Longue Durée, 1911-2021
Summary "Lasting from 1979 to 2015, China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date and considered emblematic of global efforts to regulate population growth during the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez analyses how ordinary people, particularly women, navigated China's shifting fertility policies before and during the One Child Policy era. She examines the implementation and reception of these policies and reveals that they were often contradictory and unevenly enforced, as men and women challenged, reworked, and co-opted state policies to suit their own needs. By situating the One Child Policy within the longer history of birth control and abortion in China, Reproductive Realities in Modern China exposes important historical continuities, such as the enduring reliance on abortion as contraception and the precariousness of state control over reproduction."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Sarah Mellors Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University
Print version record
Subject Abortion -- China -- History
Birth control -- China -- History
Abortion
Birth control
Population policy
SUBJECT China -- Population policy
Subject China
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1009027336
9781009019880
1009019880
9781009027335