Choice and Coercion : Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schoen, Johanna.

Series:

Gender and American Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contraception--history.

Abortion, Induced--history.

Eugenics--history.

Health Policy--history.

Sterilization, Reproductive--history.

North Carolina.

Medical Subjects:

Contraception--history.

Abortion, Induced--history.

Eugenics--history.

Health Policy--history.

Sterilization, Reproductive--history.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book situates North Carolina's reproductive politics in a national and global context. It demonstrates how each method for limiting unwanted pregnancies had the potential both to expand and to limit women's reproductive choices. Schoen's study allows deeper understandings of the modern welfare state and the lives of women.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: A Great Thing for Poor Folks; CHAPTER ONE: Teaching Birth Control on Tobacco Road and in Mill Village Alley: The History of Public Birth Control Services; CHAPTER TWO: Nothing Is Removed Except the Possibility of Parenthood: Women and the Politics of Sterilization; CHAPTER THREE: I Knew That It Was a Serious Crime: Negotiating Abortion before Roe v. Wade; CHAPTER FOUR: Taking Foam Powder and Jellies to the Natives: Family Planning Goes Abroad; EPILOGUE: From the Footnotes to the Headlines: Sterilization Apologies and Their Lessons; Notes

BibliographyIndex;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9798890878557

9780807876497

0807876496

OCLC:

476237475