Sarah Mellors Rodriguez (Missouri State University)

Reproductive Realities in Modern China

Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021

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Produktbeschreibung

China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez investigates grassroots experiences of fertility policies and politics in modern China from the early twentieth century to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781009011570
• ISBN-10: 100901157X
• Artikelnr.: 69229290

Autorenporträt

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Building a fitter nation: eugenics, birth control, and abortion in public discourse, 1911
1949; 2. Birth control in practice: emmenagogues, contraceptives, and abortions, 1911
1949; 3. Reaping the fruits of women's labor: birth control in the early PRC, 1949
1958; 4. 'Birth planning has many benefits': weaving family planning into the fabric of everyday life, 1959
1965; 5. Controlling sex and reproduction across the urban-rural divide, 1966
1979; 6. The rise and demise of the one child policy, 1979
2015; Epilogue: birth control and abortion in the longue durée, 1911
2021. Epilogue: Birth Control and Abortion in the Longue Durée, 1911-2021.