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Reproductive Rights in a Global Context: South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Denmark, United States, Vietnam, Jordan
Lara M. Knudsen
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Hardcover. Examines women's access to sex education, maternity care, family planning, and abortion, and analyzes how much power women in diverse contexts have to negotiate sexual practices. This book is suitable for courses in women's studies, globalization, public health, and political science. Num Pages: 312 pages, 7 b&w photographs, index, references. BIC Classification: 1DND; 1FBJ; 1FMV; 1HFGU; 1HFMS; 1KBB; 1KLSR; JFF; JFSJ1; JPVH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
Traveling alone when she was between 17 and 22, with no institutional affiliation and no financial assistance, the author visited five developing countries and two developed ones on five continents. Her goal was to extend her own experience in an abortion clinic in Portland, Oregon. Lara Knudsen interviewed over 90 women's rights activists, health professionals, NGO workers, and government officials, gaining a sense of both official policies and the actual delivery of services in local clinics. In each setting she asked, ""How much control do women have over their bodies and fertility-related decisions?"" To begin to understand the answer to ... Read more
Traveling alone when she was between 17 and 22, with no institutional affiliation and no financial assistance, the author visited five developing countries and two developed ones on five continents. Her goal was to extend her own experience in an abortion clinic in Portland, Oregon. Lara Knudsen interviewed over 90 women's rights activists, health professionals, NGO workers, and government officials, gaining a sense of both official policies and the actual delivery of services in local clinics. In each setting she asked, ""How much control do women have over their bodies and fertility-related decisions?"" To begin to understand the answer to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826515278
SKU
V9780826515278
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About Lara M. Knudsen
Lara Knudsen is a student of medicine and public health at George Washington University.
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