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Author López, Iris Ofelia.

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

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
©2008

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  363.97 L864M    Check Shelf
Description xxv, 184 pages : genealogical tables ; 23 cm
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.
Local Subject Poor people -- Puerto Rico.
Subject Poor -- Puerto Rico.
Reproductive rights -- Puerto Rico -- History.
Chronological Term Geschichte
Subject Poor women -- Puerto Rico -- Social conditions.
ISBN 9780813543727 hardover alkaline paper
081354372X hardover alkaline paper
9780813543734 paperback alkaline paper
0813543738 paperback alkaline paper
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