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Abortion Clinic
Abortion Experience
abortion experiences among Puerto Rican women
Abortion Patients
abortion rights
Armenian Culture
Author_Jean Peterman
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Chicana Lesbian Feminist
Civil Libertarians
Collective Story
cultural identity studies
Cultural Story
Diana's Mother
Diana’s Mother
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Federal Bureau Of Investigation
fertility decision making
gender role resistance
Humboldt Park
Illegal Abortion
Latina health disparities
Middle Class White Female
Moral Passage
Previous Abortions
Pro-choice Rally
Progressive Students
Puerto Rican
Puerto Rican Community
Puerto Rican Legislature
Puerto Rican Men
Puerto Rican Women
qualitative interviews
religious beliefs
reproductive justice
resisting male control
Rosa Rio
Young Man
Young Puerto Rican Women
Product details
- ISBN 9780367289829
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 480 x 625mm
- Publication Date: 13 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Abortion and the right of a woman to control her fertility cross boundaries of race, ethnicity, and social class. In this revealing and in-depth study, Jean P. Peterman focuses on a group of Puerto Rican women in Chicago whose decisions about abortion highlight the contradictions between the sexually conservative ethnic and religious beliefs of this community and the fact that Latina women (including Puerto Rican women) have abortions at a rate one and a half times as high as non-Latinas. For more than half the women Peterman interviewed, their decision to have an abortion allowed them to maintain opportunities for themselves or to resist male control. Despite their resistance to traditional gender roles, their Puerto Rican identity remains strong. The term “cultural story,†coined by sociologist Laurel Richardson, explains how cultures create and support their social worlds—their cultural and social frameworks as well as beliefs about home, community, sex roles, and family. A “collective story†is an oppositional story—a form of resistance and a catalyst for change. In this book, the stories recounted by these women involve struggles against barriers instrinsic to their social structure, such as poverty, prejudice, and discrimination, that ultimately shape newfound feelings of independence, inner strength, and control over their own fertility and their lives.
Jean P. Peterman is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy at Chicago State University
