Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and WelfareUniv of North Carolina Press, 13 mar 2006 - 352 páginas 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 largely by a series of articles in the Winston-Salem Journal. These stories were inspired in part by 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. |
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Teaching Birth Control on Tobacco Road and in Mill Village Alley The History of Public Birth Control Services | |
Nothing Is Removed Except the Possibility of Parenthood Women and the Politics of Sterilization | |
I Knew That It Was a Serious Crime Negotiating Abortion before Roe v Wade | |
Taking Foam Powder and Jellies to the Natives Family Planning Goes Abroad | |
From the Footnotes to the Headlines Sterilization Apologies and Their Lessons | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public ... Johanna Schoen Vista previa restringida - 2009 |
Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public ... Johanna Schoen Vista previa restringida - 2005 |
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