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Choice and Coercion - Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Paperback, New edition)
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Choice and Coercion - Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Gender and American Culture
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In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer
restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out
by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was
prompted by newspaper stories based on the research of Johanna
Schoen, who was granted unique access to summaries of 7,500 case
histories and the papers of the North Carolina Eugenics Board. In
this book, Schoen situates the state's reproductive politics in a
national and global context. Widening her focus to include birth
control, sterilization, and abortion policies across the nation,
she demonstrates how each method for limiting unwanted pregnancies
had the potential both to expand and to limit women's reproductive
choices. Such programs overwhelmingly targeted poor and nonwhite
populations, yet they also extended a measure of reproductive
control to poor women that was previously out of reach. On an
international level, the United States has influenced reproductive
health policies by, for example, tying foreign aid to the
recipients' compliance with U.S. notions about family planning. The
availability of U.S.-funded family planning aid has proved to be a
double-edged sword, offering unprecedented opportunities to poor
women while subjecting foreign patients to medical experimentation
that would be considered unacceptable at home. Drawing on the
voices of health and science professionals, civic benefactors, and
American women themselves, Schoen's study allows deeper
understandings of the modern welfare state and the lives of women.
General
Imprint: |
The University of North Carolina Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Gender and American Culture |
Release date: |
March 2005 |
First published: |
March 2005 |
Authors: |
Johanna Schoen
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Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
352 |
Edition: |
New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8078-5585-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Population & demography >
General
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LSN: |
0-8078-5585-5 |
Barcode: |
9780807855850 |
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