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Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom

Matters of Choice: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom


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In ""Matters of Choice"", Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women. Drawing upon her twenty-five years of research on sterilized Puerto Rican women from five different families in Brooklyn, Lopez untangles the interplay between how women make fertility decisions and their social, economic, cultural, and historical constraints.

About the Author :
Iris Lopez is the director of the Latin American and Caribbean studies program and an associate professor in the department of sociology at the City College of New York. She is coauthor of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios.

Review :
"In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a nuanced analysis of the
multiple forces that lead to high sterilization rates of Puerto Rican
women. Using their voices, Lopez illuminates women's reproductive
agency, pushing us to think more deeply about the meaning of la
operación.--Patricia Zavella "professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa" (7/15/2008 12:00:00 AM) "Matters of Choice is that rare work of scholarship whose ideas and rich findings are central to the literatures on social movements and gender studies. Lopez explodes the usual binary of victim vs. free agent and helps us to imagine what real reproductive justice might look like"--Rosalind Petchesky "Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Hunter College" (8/14/2008 12:00:00 AM) "Lopez's work fills a tremendous void in the social science literature about Puerto Rican women's lives and fertility. One of the more impressive aspects of this work is the depth of the ethnographic interviews: each woman's voice rings loud and clear. Matters of Choice should be standard reading for students of the Puerto Rican and Latina condition, and not just female students but all students."-- "Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies" (9/1/2009 12:00:00 AM)


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  • ISBN-13: 9780813543727
  • Publisher: Rutgers University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 081354372X
  • Publisher Date: 10 Dec 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Sub Title: Puerto Rican Women's Struggle for Reproductive Freedom


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