The policies of reproduction at the turn of the 21st century
Subtitle: the cases of Finland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Austria, and the US
By: Maria Mesner, Gudrun Wolfgruber, eds.
Contributors: Mesner, Maria, 1960-; Wolfgruber, Gudrun.
Series: Bruno Kreisky international studies -- v. 6.; Bruno Kreisky international studies -- Bd. 6.
Publisher: StudienVerlag; Distributed in North America and South America and the rest of the world excluding Austria, Germany, and Switzerland by Transaction Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Innsbruck; Piscataway, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9783706540889
Subjects: Human reproduction -- Government policy -- Europe; Human reproduction -- Government policy -- United States; Birth control -- Government policy -- Europe; Birth control -- Government policy -- United States; Child care -- Government policy -- Europe; Child care -- Government policy -- United States; Family policy -- Europe; Family policy -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Every child's right to public day care in Finland / Teija Hautanen; title: Contradiction between gender equality and protection of motherhood : reproduction policy in Finland / Ritva Nätkin; title: Women, welfare state, and welfare society in Portugal / Silvia Portugal; title: The politics of reproduction in post-1974 Portugal / Virginia Ferreira; title: "Choice" versus "right to life" : political contestation about reproductive rights in the United States / Linda Gordon; title: Explaining US welfare reform : power, gender, race, and the US policy legacy / Ann Shola Orloff; title: Child care, family and state in post-socialist Romania / Livia Popescu; title: Women's health and the politics of reproduction : the case of Romania / Adriana Baban; title: Socio-economic problems of families in Russia : gender aspects / Yelena Kulagina; title: The politics of reproduction and nationalism in Russia / Michele Rivkin-Fish; title: Mother-families, family mothers : policies on having children in Austria / Maria Mesner; title: In vitro fertilization, egg selling, surrogacy : new reproductive technologies; title: the Austrian development / Aurelia Weikert; title: Re/production of a nation / Johanna Gehmacher; title: The medicalization of reproduction / Maria Andrea Wolf.