Matters of choice [electronic resource] : Puerto Rican women's struggle for reproductive freedom / Iris Lopez.
By: L�opez, Iris Ofelia.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: BookPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008Description: xxv, 184 p. : geneal. tables.Subject(s): Reproductive rights -- Puerto Rico -- History | Poor women -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions | Poor -- Puerto RicoGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.9/7097295 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to viewItem type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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E-book | IUKL Library | Subscripti | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=10275494 | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177) and index.
The globalization of sterilization -- The birth control movement in Puerto Rico -- Gender awareness across generations -- Cultural continuities and urban change -- The Velez family: poverty, the cancer scare, and hysterectomies -- The Robles family: social change and gender struggle -- The Gomez family: under the knife again-reversing la operaci�on -- The Morales and Rivera families: tough love and sterile choices -- Reproductive rights and an integral model of reproductive freedom -- Ideologies and inequities in the health care system -- Toward an integral model of reproductive freedom.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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