Births and power : social change and the politics of reproduction
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Births and power : social change and the politics of reproduction
Westview Press, 1990
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
By looking at the birth of a child as a political event, this book aims to provide a better understanding of the nature of social relationships and the determining factors of social change. Reflecting a cross-cultural approach to the politics of reproduction, the authors address such issues as the implications of choosing to have large or small families, approaches to reducing high birth rates in less developed countries, the incidence of teenage pregnancy rates in developed countries, the failure of family planning programmes and the debate over abortion.
Table of Contents
- The politics of reproduction - a window on social change, W.Penn Handwerker
- the politics of reproductive biology - exclusionary policies in the United States, Rose Jones
- the politics of obstetric care - the Inuit experience, John O'Neill and Patricia A.Kaufert
- the politics of birth - cultural dimensions of pain, virtue and control among the Bariba of Benin, Carolyn Sargent
- the politics of children - fosterage and the social management of fertility among the Mende of the Sierra Leone, Caroline H.Bledsoe
- the politics of below-replacement fertility - policy and power in Hungary, Jeanne M.Simonelli
- the politics of parenthood - responsibility, freedom and fairness in American reproductive choice, Catherine L.Leone
- the politics of choice - abortion as insurrection, Warren M.Hern
- the politics of adolescent pregnancy - turf and teens in Louisiana, Martha C.Ward
- the politics of AIDS, condoms and heterosexual relations in Africa - recent evidence from the local print media, Caroline H.Bledsoe
- the international politics of family planning - sterilization and human rights in Bangladesh, Barbara Pillsbury.
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