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Matters of choice : Puerto Rican women's struggle for reproductive freedom /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: López, Iris Ofelia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Poor > Puerto Rico.
Poor women > Puerto Rico > Social conditions.
Reproductive rights > Puerto Rico > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.