MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 080110s2008 nju b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aHQ766.5.P8$bL66 2008
082 00 $a363.9/7097295$222
100 1 $aLópez, Iris Ofelia.
245 10 $aMatters of choice :$bsterilization and Puerto Rican women's reproductive rights /$cIris Lopez.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bRutgers University Press,$cc2008.
263 $a0811
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe globalization of sterilization: birth control or population control? -- The slippery slope: binary thinking and the ideology of choice -- The making of the birth control movement in Puerto Rico: universal and unique -- Changing gender consciousness across generations -- Cultural continuities and urban change: intergenerational perspectives -- The Velez family: poverty, the cancer scare, and hysterectomies -- The Robles family: social change & 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 -- El Matadero: cultural ideologies and inequities in the health care system -- Beyond choice: toward an integral feminist model of reproductive freedom -- Appendix: genealogical charts -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aBirth control$zPuerto Rico$xHistory.
650 0 $aPoor women$zPuerto Rico$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aPoor$zPuerto Rico$xEconomic conditions.