| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 184 pages) : genealogical tables |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index. |
| Contents |
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 operación -- 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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
Sterilization remains one of the most popular forms of fertility control in the world, but it has received little acknowledgment for decreasing birthrates on account of its dubious use as a means of population control, especially in developing countries. In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women. Drawing upon her twenty-five years of research on sterilized Puerto Rican wo. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Reproductive rights -- Puerto Rico -- History.
|
|
Reproductive rights. |
|
Puerto Rico. |
|
History. |
|
Poor women -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions.
|
|
Poor women. |
|
Social conditions. |
|
Poor -- Puerto Rico.
|
|
Poor. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: López, Iris Ofelia. Matters of choice. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813543727 081354372X (DLC) 2008000883 (OCoLC)190876165 |
| ISBN |
9780813546247 (electronic book) |
|
0813546249 (electronic book) |
|
1281958816 |
|
9781281958815 |
|
9780813543727 (hardover ; alkaline paper) |
|
081354372X (hardover ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780813543734 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|
0813543738 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786611958817 |
|
