Matters of choice [electronic resource] : Puerto Rican women's struggle for reproductive freedom / Iris Lopez.
Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.Description: xxv, 184 p. : geneal. tablesISBN:- 081354372X (hardover : alk. paper)
- 0813543738 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780813543727 (hardover : alk. paper)
- 9780813543734 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 363.9/7097295 22
- HQ766.5.P8 L66 2008eb
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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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