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Author Schoen, Johanna.

Title Choice & coercion : birth control, sterilization, and abortion in public health and welfare / Johanna Schoen.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2005]
©2005

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  363.96 S365C    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 331 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : a great thing for poor folks -- 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 -- Epilogue : from the footnotes to the headlines : sterilization apologies and their lessons.
Subject Birth control -- Government policy -- North Carolina -- History.
Involuntary sterilization -- North Carolina -- History.
Abortion -- Government policy -- North Carolina -- History.
Contraception -- history -- North Carolina.
Abortion, Induced -- history -- North Carolina.
Eugenics -- history -- North Carolina.
Health Policy -- history -- North Carolina.
Sterilization, Reproductive -- history -- North Carolina.
Added Title Choice and coercion
ISBN 0807829196 cloth alkaline paper
0807855855 paperback alkaline paper
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