Matters of choice
Subtitle: sterilization and Puerto Rican women's reproductive rights
By: Iris Lopez.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780813543727; 9780813543734
Subjects: Birth control -- Puerto Rico -- History; Poor women -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions; Poor -- Puerto Rico -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The globalization of sterilization: birth control or population control?; title: The slippery slope: binary thinking and the ideology of choice; title: The making of the birth control movement in Puerto Rico: universal and unique; title: Changing gender consciousness across generations; title: Cultural continuities and urban change: intergenerational perspectives; title: The Velez family: poverty, the cancer scare, and hysterectomies; title: The Robles family: social change & gender struggle; title: The Gomez family: under the knife again-reversing la operación; title: The morales and rivera families: tough love and sterile choices; title: Reproductive rights and an integral model of reproductive freedom; title: El Matadero: cultural ideologies and inequities in the health care system; title: Beyond choice: toward an integral feminist model of reproductive freedom; title: Appendix: genealogical charts; title: Bibliography; title: Index.