Matters of choice [electronic resource] : Puerto Rican women's struggle for reproductive freedom / Iris Lopez.
By: L�opez, Iris Ofelia.
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BookPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008Description: xxv, 184 p. : geneal. tables ; 23 cm.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 view 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.
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