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Fit to be tied : sterilization and reproductive rights in America, 1950-1980 / Rebecca M. Kluchin.

LIBRA HQ766.5.U5 K55 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kluchin, Rebecca M. (Rebecca Marie)
Series:
Critical issues in health and medicine
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sterilization (Birth control)--United States--History--20th century.
Sterilization (Birth control).
Birth control--Government policy--United States--History--20th century.
Birth control.
Reproductive rights--United States--History--20th century.
Reproductive rights.
Sterilization, Reproductive--history.
History.
Birth control--Government policy.
United States.
Family Planning Policy--history.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Sterilization, Involuntary--legislation & jurisprudence.
Women's Rights--history.
Medical Subjects:
Sterilization, Reproductive--history.
United States.
Family Planning Policy--history.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Sterilization, Involuntary--legislation & jurisprudence.
Women's Rights--history.
Physical Description:
pages ; cm.
Place of Publication:
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2009]
Contents:
From eugenics to neo-eugenics
"Fit" women and reproductive choice
Sterilizing "unfit" women
"Fit" women fight back
"Unfit" women fight too
Irreconcilable conflicts
The endurance of neo-eugenics.
Notes:
Rev. ed. of thesis: Fit to be tied? : sterilization and reproductive rights in America, 1960-1984 / by Rebecca M. Kluchin. c2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780813545271
0813545277
OCLC:
244265635

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