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Challenging Choices - Canada's Population Control in the 1970s (Paperback)
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Challenging Choices - Canada's Population Control in the 1970s (Paperback)
Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
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Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the
introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a
landmark decade in the struggle for women's rights, public
discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed.
At the same time, a transnational conversation about the
"population bomb" that threatened global famine caused by
overpopulation embraced birth control technologies for a different
set of reasons, revisiting controversial ideas about eugenics,
heredity, and degeneration. In Challenging Choices Erika Dyck and
Maureen Lux argue that reproductive politics in 1970s Canada were
shaped by competing ideologies on global population control,
poverty, personal autonomy, race, and gender. For some Canadians
the 1970s did not bring about an era of reproductive liberty but
instead reinforced traditional power dynamics and paternalistic
structures of authority. Dyck and Lux present case studies of four
groups of Canadians who were routinely excluded from progressive,
reformist discourse: Indigenous women and their communities, those
with intellectual and physical disabilities, teenage girls, and
men. In different ways, each faced new levels of government
regulation, scrutiny, or state intervention as they negotiated
their reproductive health, rights, and responsibilities in the
so-called era of sexual liberation. While acknowledging the
reproductive rights gains that were made in the 1970s, the authors
argue that the legal changes affected Canadians differently
depending on age, social position, gender, health status, and
cultural background. Illustrating the many ways to plan a modern
family, these case studies reveal how the relative merits of life
and choice were pitted against each other to create a new moral
landscape for evaluating classic questions about population
control.
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Imprint: |
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Series: |
McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society |
Release date: |
November 2020 |
Authors: |
Erika Dyck
• Maureen Lux
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-228-00375-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-228-00375-X |
Barcode: |
9780228003755 |
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