作者: Iris Ofelia López
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关键词: Fertility 、 Puerto rican 、 Sociology 、 Gender studies 、 Population control 、 Sterilization (medicine)
摘要: In "Matters of Choice", Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part coercive program population control or means voluntary, even liberating, fertility by individual women. Drawing upon her twenty-five years research on sterilized Puerto Rican women from five different families in Brooklyn, untangles interplay between how make decisions and their social, economic, cultural, historical constraints.