Iris Lopez

Matters of Choice

Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780813543734
• ISBN-10: 0813543738
• Artikelnr.: 24344613

Autorenporträt

Iris Lopez is the director of the Latin American and Caribbean studies program and an associate professor in the department of sociology at the City College of New York. She is coauthor of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios.

Inhaltsangabe

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 operaciön
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