Birth control in the decolonizing Caribbean reproductive politics and practice on four islands, 1930-1970
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice o...
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New York
Cambridge University Press
2016
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The answer, an aid, a right: birth control debates and social movements in the interwar years
- From politics to practice: the colonial office, foreign activists, local advocates, and the structure of family planning clinics
- Beyond culture or choice: working class families and birth control
- Clinics
- A matter of cost: reproductive politics, state family planning programs, and foreign aid in the transition to independent rule
- Conclusion