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Matters of Choice

Iris Lopez
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anthropology
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babies
birth control
birth control in Puerto Rico
birth control movement
birthrate
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children
constraints
cultural constraints
developing countries
economic constraints
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eugenics
family
feminism
feminist
fertility
fertility control
gender awareness
gender equality
gender inequality
globalization of sterilization
having children
health care
historical constraints
maternity
misinformation in medicine
mothers
population control
pregnancy
Puerto Rican women
Puerto Rico
reproduction
reproductive
reproductive freedom
reproductive rights
social constraints
societal pressures
starting a family
sterilization
struggle for reproductive rights
urban change
victim debates
women's reproductive rights
women's struggle

Product details

  • ISBN 9780813543734
  • Weight: 312g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Dec 2008
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
Sterilization remains one of the most popular forms of fertility control in the world, but it has received little acknowledgment for decreasing birthrates on account of its dubious use as a means of population control, especially in developing countries.

In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women. Drawing upon her twenty-five years of research on sterilized Puerto Rican women from five different families in Brooklyn, Lopez untangles the interplay between how women make fertility decisions and their social, economic, cultural, and historical constraints. Weaving together the voices of these women, she covers the history of sterilization and eugenics, societal pressures to have fewer children, a lack of adequate health care, patterns of gender inequality, and misinformation provided by doctors and family members.

Lopez makes a stirring case for a model of reproductive freedom, taking readers beyond victim/agent debates to consider a broader definition of reproductive rights within a feminist anthropological context.
About Iris Lopez
Iris Lopez is the director of the Latin American and Caribbean studies program and an associate professor in the department of sociology at the City College of New York. She is coauthor of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios.

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