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Power and Decision

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Description for Power and Decision Paperback. Editor(s): Sen, Gita; Snow, Rachel. Series: Department of Population & International Health S. Num Pages: 356 pages, 9tabs. BIC Classification: JHBD; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 30. Weight in Grams: 560.

This volume brings together feminist social and biomedical scholars from the Southern and Northern hemispheres to examine the aggregate forces that affect reproductive choice. Drawing on numerous case studies, this book examines the range of social, economic, and scientific policies which collectively impact on reproductive well being. Power and Decision offers an analysis of how disparate policies, seemingly unrelated to reproduction, are implicitly “pro-natalist” or “anti-natalist.” Moreover, these policies are imbued with gender, race, and class biases. The authors examine the reproductive impact of welfare and parental leave legislation, health services, adoption policies, biomedical research, the global transfer and regulation ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Series
Department of Population & International Health S.
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674695337
SKU
V9780674695337
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Reviews for Power and Decision
Many of these writers discuss phenomena that, if taken seriously by demographers, would have important influence in their approach to research and policy… They raise the issue of whether women really have choice in reproductive decisions or in family planning method given existing social, especially gender, inequalities and the hegemony of the population control movement.
Nancy E. Riley
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