Matters of choice : Puerto Rican women's struggle for reproductive freedom / / Iris Lopez.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 184 p. :; geneal. tables. |
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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 operacion
- 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.