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Choice and Coercion - Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R1,058
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Choice and Coercion - Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Paperback, New edition): Johanna...

Choice and Coercion - Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Paperback, New edition)

Johanna Schoen

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
Country of origin: United States
Series: Gender and American Culture
Release date: March 2005
First published: March 2005
Authors: Johanna Schoen
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5585-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > General
LSN: 0-8078-5585-5
Barcode: 9780807855850

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