Power and Decision : the Social Control of Reproduction

Sen, Gita, Ed. Snow, Rachel, Ed.

ISBN 10: 067469533X / ISBN 13: 9780674695337

Editore: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Center For Population And Development Studies, Dept. Of Population And International Health, Harvard School Of Public Health : Distributed By Harvard University Press, 1994

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Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 348 pages; Description: ii, 348 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Birth control --Social aspects --Human reproduction --Social aspects. Includes bibliographical references and index. Series: Harvard series on population and international health. 1 Kg.

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• Titolo: Power and Decision : the Social Control of Reproduction
• Editore: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Center For Population And Development Studies, Dept. Of Population And International Health, Harvard School Of Public Health : Distributed By Harvard University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 067469533X
• ISBN 13: 9780674695337
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: First Edition.

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Riassunto

This volume brings together feminist social and biomedical scholars from the Southern and Northern hemispheres to examine the aggregate forces that affect reproductive choice. Drawing on numerous case studies, this book examines the range of social, economic, and scientific policies which collectively impact on reproductive well being. Power and Decision offers an analysis of how disparate policies, seemingly unrelated to reproduction, are implicitly “pro-natalist” or “anti-natalist.” Moreover, these policies are imbued with gender, race, and class biases. The authors examine the reproductive impact of welfare and parental leave legislation, health services, adoption policies, biomedical research, the global transfer and regulation of reproductive technologies, and international family planning programs.

Offering a rare global feminist critique of social policy, this volume makes explicit the direction of current legislative, economic, and scientific trends, providing a basis for discussion, debate, and possible redress.

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The Social Control of Reproduction