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1 online resource (xxv, 184 pages) : genealogical tables |
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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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Reproductive rights -- Puerto Rico -- History
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Poor women -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions
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Poor -- Puerto Rico
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
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Poor
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Poor women -- Social conditions
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Reproductive rights
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Puerto Rico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813546247 |
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0813546249 |
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1281958816 |
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9781281958815 |
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081354372X |
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9780813543727 |
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