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Author Lopez, Iris Ofelia.

Title Matters of choice [electronic resource] : Puerto Rican women's struggle for reproductive freedom / Iris Lopez.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xxv, 184 p. : geneal. tables.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 operacion -- 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Reproductive rights -- Puerto Rico -- History.
Poor women -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions.
Poor -- Puerto Rico.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780813543727 (hardover : alk. paper)
081354372X (hardover : alk. paper)
9780813543734 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813543738 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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