Family Planning, Birth Control, and Western Imperialism
Author : M. C. Asuzu
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : M. C. Asuzu
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Africa
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Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Birth control
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Author : Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1503604411
A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism. As the birth control movement spread beyond national and racial borders, it shed its radical bearings and was pressed into the service of larger ideological debates around fertility rates and overpopulation, global competitiveness, and eugenics. By the time of the Cold War, a transnational coalition for women's sexual liberation had been handed over to imperial machinations, enabling state-sponsored population control projects that effectively disempowered women and deprived them of reproductive freedom. In this book, Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci follows the relationship between two iconic birth control activists, Margaret Sanger in the United States and Ishimoto Shizue in Japan, as well as other intellectuals and policymakers in both countries who supported their campaigns, to make sense of the complex transnational exchanges occurring around contraception. The birth control movement facilitated U.S. expansionism, exceptionalism, and anti-communist policy and was welcomed in Japan as a hallmark of modernity. By telling the story of reproductive politics in a transnational context, Takeuchi-Demirci draws connections between birth control activism and the history of eugenics, racism, and imperialism.
Author : Carole Ruth McCann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801486128
In a disturbing behind-the-scenes history of the early achievements of Margaret Sanger's American birth control movement, Carole R. McCann scrutinizes the movement's compromises as well as its successes.
Author : Chikako Takeshita
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262319632
The intrauterine device (IUD) has been viewed both as a means for women's reproductive autonomy and as coercive tool of state-imposed population control, as a convenient form of birth control on a par with the pill and as a threat to women's health. This BIT examines the early development of the IUD through a feminist science lens, describing efforts to improve and measure its contraceptive efficacy.
Author : Nicholas Jay Demerath
Publisher : New York : Harper & Row
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,68 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
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Author : Simone M. Caron
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
This book is the first to synthesize the intertwined histories of contraception, sterilization, and abortion in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Caron skillfully blends the local study of reproductive history in the state of Rhode Island into her thorough re-telling of the larger story that played out on the national stage
Author : Sanjam Ahluwalia
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252090381
Reproductive Restraints traces the history of contraception use and population management in colonial India, while illuminating its connection to contemporary debates in India and birth control movements in Great Britain and the United States. Sanjam Ahluwalia draws attention to the interactive and relational history of Indian birth control by including western activists such as Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes alongside important Indian campaigners. In revealing the elitist politics of middle-class feminists, Indian nationalists, western activists, colonial authorities and the medical establishment, Ahluwalia finds that they all sought to rationalize procreation and regulate women while invoking competing notions of freedom, femininity, and family. Ahluwalia’s remarkable interviews with practicing midwives in rural northern India fills a gaping void in the documentary history of birth control and shows that the movement has had little appeal to non-elite groups in India. Finding that Jaunpuri women’s reproductive decisions are bound to their emotional, cultural, and economic reliance on family and community, Ahluwalia presents the limitations of universal liberal feminist categories, which often do not consider differences among localized subjects. She argues that elitist birth control efforts failed to account for Indian women’s values and needs and have worked to restrict reproductive rights rather than liberate subaltern Indian women since colonial times.
Author : Sidney Xu Lu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108482422
Shows how Japanese anxiety about overpopulation was used to justify expansion, blurring lines between migration and settler colonialism. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Axel I. Mundigo
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN :
Twenty million unsafe abortions are performed each year, 90% of which occur in the developing world. Even in countries such as China, where abortion is fully accessible in practice as well as in theory, our understanding of the phenomenon is very partial. The result of a global research project commissioned by the World Health Organization, this book provides new information on abortion, why it happens and what happens when it does. There are sections detailing women' s perspectives and also chronicling the providers views and the effect they have on medical provision. Several essays focus on the relationship between contraception and abortion, while a section on adolescents addresses a newly emerging concern for program managers around the world. Including much previously unavailable material, this book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date picture of abortion globally.