Reproductive Rights in a Global Context: South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Denmark, United States, Vietnam, JordanA Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2006 Traveling alone when she was between 17 and 22, with no institutional affiliation and no financial assistance, the author visited five developing countries and two developed ones on five continents. Her goal was to extend her own experience in an abortion clinic in Portland, Oregon. Lara Knudsen interviewed over 90 women's rights activists, health professionals, NGO workers, and government officials, gaining a sense of both official policies and the actual delivery of services in local clinics. The book places the experiences of women within the global context of how international population control agendas have influenced women's reproductive rights in the past, and how the changing international discourse on reproductive health continues to influence those rights today. |
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Contents
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6 Vietnam | 139 |
7 Jordan | 168 |
Conclusion | 197 |
Appendix 1 | 205 |
Appendix 2 | 209 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliographies | 255 |
Index | 283 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Reproductive Rights in a Global Context: South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Denmark, United States, Vietnam, Jordan |
| Author | Lara M. Knudsen |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0826515282, 9780826515285 |
| Length | 289 pages |
| Subjects | › Health & Fitness / Women's Health Political Science / Globalization Social Science / Abortion & Birth Control Social Science / Women's Studies |
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