Fit to Be Tied - Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca M. Kluchin is an assistant professor of history at California State University, Sacramento. Klappentext Fit to Be Tied provides a history of sterilization and what would prove to become, at once, socially divisive and a popular form of birth control. Rebecca M. Kluchin examines the evolution of forced sterilization of poor women, especially women of color, in the second half of the century and contrasts it with demands for contraceptive sterilization made by white women and men. She chronicles public acceptance during an era of reproductive and sexual freedom, and the subsequent replacement of the eugenics movement with "neo-eugenic" standards that continued to influence American medical practice, family planning, public policy, and popular sentiment. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 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 Index

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca M Kluchin, Rebecca M. Kluchin
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2011
• EAN: 9780813549996
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4999-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Critical Issues in Health and; Critical Issues in Health and
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education