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Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608467341
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Reproductive Rights and Wrongs written by Betsy Hartmann and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Those involved in women’s health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought” (Kirkus Reviews). This is an updated edition of the “influential study” (Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs. Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, environmental degradation, and gender inequalities, the author uses data and vivid case studies to explore how population control programs came to be promoted by powerful governments, foundations, and international agencies as an instrument of Cold War development and security policy. Mainly targeting poor women, these programs were designed to drive down birth rates as rapidly and cheaply as possible, with coercion often a matter of course. In the war on population growth, birth control was deployed as a weapon, rather than a tool of reproductive choice. Threaded throughout is the story of how international women’s health activists fought to reform population control and promote a new agenda of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all. While their efforts bore fruit, obstacles remain. On one side is the anti-choice movement that wants to deny women access not only to abortion but to most methods of contraception. On the other is a resurgent, well-funded population control lobby that often obscures its motives with the language of women’s empowerment. Despite declining birth rates worldwide—average global family size is now 2.5 children—overpopulation alarm is on the rise, tied now to the threats of climate change and terrorism. Reproductive Rights and Wrongs reveals how these developments are rooted in the longer history and politics of population control. In this book, a new generation of readers will find knowledge and inspiration for the ongoing struggle to achieve reproductive rights and social, environmental, and gender justice.

Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896084919
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Reproductive Rights and Wrongs written by Betsy Hartmann and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new introduction, this fully revised edition of a feminist classic reveals the dangers of contemporary population control tactivs, especially as they affect women in developing countries.

On Infertile Ground

Author : Jade S. Sasser
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479899356
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book On Infertile Ground written by Jade S. Sasser and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”—and that the only way to avoid catastrophic climate change is to ensure women’s universal access to contraception. Did the population problem ever disappear? What is bringing it back—and why now? In On Infertile Ground, Jade S. Sasser explores how a small network of international development actors, including private donors, NGO program managers, scientists, and youth advocates, is bringing population back to the center of public environmental debate. While these narratives never disappeared, Sasser argues, histories of human rights abuses, racism, and a conservative backlash against abortion in the 1980s drove them underground—until now. Using interviews and case studies from a wide range of sites—from Silicon Valley foundation headquarters to youth advocacy trainings, the halls of Congress and an international climate change conference—Sasser demonstrates how population growth has been reframed as an urgent source of climate crisis and a unique opportunity to support women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights. Although well-intentioned—promoting positive action, women’s empowerment, and moral accountability to a global community—these groups also perpetuate the same myths about the sexuality and lack of virtue and control of women and the people of global south that have been debunked for decades. Unless the development community recognizes the pervasive repackaging of failed narratives, Sasser argues, true change and development progress will not be possible. On Infertile Ground presents a unique critique of international development that blends the study of feminism, environmentalism, and activism in a groundbreaking way. It will make any development professional take a second look at the ideals driving their work.

The America Syndrome

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609807413
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The America Syndrome written by Betsy Hartmann and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has apocalyptic thinking contributed to some of our nation's biggest problems—inequality, permanent war, and the despoiling of our natural resources? From the Puritans to the present, historian and public policy advocate Betsy Hartmann sheds light on a pervasive but—until now—invisible theme shaping the American mindset: apocalyptic thinking, or the belief that the end of the world is nigh. Hartmann makes a compelling case that apocalyptic fears are deeply intertwined with the American ethos, to our detriment. In The America Syndrome, she seeks to reclaim human agency and, in so doing, revise the national narrative. By changing the way we think, we just might change the world.

Fit to Be Tied

Author : Rebecca M. Kluchin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081354999X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Fit to Be Tied written by Rebecca M. Kluchin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1960s revolutionized American contraceptive practice. Diaphragms, jellies, and condoms with high failure rates gave way to newer choices of the Pill, IUD, and sterilization. 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. During the first half of the twentieth century, sterilization (tubal ligation and vasectomy) was a tool of eugenics. Individuals who endorsed crude notions of biological determinism sought to control the reproductive decisions of women they considered "unfit" by nature of race or class, and used surgery to do so. Incorporating first-person narratives, court cases, and official records, 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.

Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060961718
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Reproductive Rights and Wrongs written by Betsy Hartmann and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at government population policies in the U.S., China, and South America, discusses family planning, contraception, and sterilization, and examines the political, economic, and social consequences.

Human Rights and Human Wrongs

Author : Colin Tatz
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922235687
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Human Wrongs written by Colin Tatz and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racism crushes bodies and souls. In Human Rights and Human Wrongs Colin Tatz – a world authority on racial conflict and abuse, a key figure in Aboriginal Studies in Australia and an author of major works on genocide, Aboriginal youth suicide, and Aboriginal and Islander sporting achievements – tells his personal story. Born and educated in South Africa, Tatz worked to expose and oppose that nation’s centuries-old apartheid regimes before leaving for what he thought would be a more enlightened nation, only to find in Australia striking parallels of that other dismal universe. As a researcher, writer and activist he has dedicated his life to confronting what people do to other people on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Here he also relates how alienation, his Jewishness and an intriguing problem with food have been, for him, propelling forces. Tatz’s story, ranging from Southern Africa to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Israel, is an important one for anyone genuinely interested in the struggle to achieve social justice for minorities and marginalised peoples.

The Echoing Ida Collection

Author : Cynthia R. Greenlee
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 155861284X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book The Echoing Ida Collection written by Cynthia R. Greenlee and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Founded in 2012, Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who-like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett-believe the "way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." Their community reporting spans a wide variety of topics: reproductive justice and abortion politics; new and necessary definitions of family; trans visibility; stigma against Black motherhood; Black mental health; and more. The Echoing Ida Collection gathers the best of Echoing Ida for the first time, and features a foreword by Michelle Duster, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett"--

Choice Words

Author : Annie Finch
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642592005
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Choice Words written by Annie Finch and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, the book spans continents and centuries. This collection magnifies the voices of people reclaiming the sole authorship of their abortion experiences. These essays, poems, and prose are a testament to the profound political power of defying shame. Contributors include Ai, Amy Tan, Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, Bobbie Louise Hawkins. Camonghne Felix, Carol Muske-Dukes, Diane di Prima, Dorothy Parker, Gloria Naylor, Gloria Steinem, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jean Rhys, Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Arcana, Kathy Acker, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lindy West, Lucille Clifton, Mahogany L. Browne, Margaret Atwood, Molly Peacock, Ntozake Shange, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Sharon Doubiago, Sharon Olds, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Sholeh Wolpe, Ursula Le Guin, and Vi Khi Nao.

The Truth about Fire

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786710218
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Truth about Fire written by Betsy Hartmann and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of two very different women--Gillian Grace, an academic and mother of a biracial teenage daughter, and Lucy Wirth, the mistress of the leader of the extremist Sons of the Shepherd--collide in a deadly web of religious bigotry, bioterrorism, and murder.

Happy Abortions

Author : Erica Millar
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786991330
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Happy Abortions written by Erica Millar and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A provocative and important book that every pro-choice advocate should read.’ Sinéad Kennedy, Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment When it comes to abortion, today’s liberal climate has produced a common sense that is both pro-choice and anti-abortion. The public are fed an unchanging version of what the abortion choice entails and how women experience it. While it would prove highly unpopular to insist that all pregnant women should carry their pregnancy to term, the idea that abortion could or should be a happy experience for women is virtually unspeakable. In this careful and intelligent work, Erica Millar shows how the emotions of abortion are constructed in sharp contrast to the emotional position occupied by motherhood – the unassailable placeholder for women’s happiness. Through an exposition of the cultural and political forces that continue to influence the decisions women make about their pregnancies – forces that are synonymous with the rhetoric of choice – Millar argues for a radical reinterpretation of women’s freedom.

Rights and Wrongs of Abortion

Author : Marshall Cohen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691233160
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Rights and Wrongs of Abortion written by Marshall Cohen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic philosophical issues posed by this controversial subject: whether the fetus is a person, whether it has a right to life, whether a woman has a right to decide what happens in and to her body, whether there is an ethical connection between abortion and infanticide, whether there is any point after conception where it is possible to draw the line beyond which killing is impermissible. These five essays, together here for the first time in a single volume, offer radically differing points of view; they provide the best sustained discussion of these philosophical issues available anywhere. Contents: Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion"; Roger Wertheimer, "Understanding the Abortion Argument"; Michael Tooley, "Abortion and Infanticide"; John Finnis, "The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion"; and Judith Jarvis Thomson, "Rights and Deaths."

Too Many People?

Author : Ian Angus
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608461408
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Too Many People? written by Ian Angus and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too Many People? provides a clear, well-documented, and popularly written refutation of the idea that "overpopulation" is a major cause of environmental destruction, arguing that a focus on human numbers not only misunderstands the causes of the crisis, it dangerously weakens the movement for real solutions. No other book challenges modern overpopulation theory so clearly and comprehensively, providing invaluable insights for the layperson and environmental scholars alike. Ian Angus is editor of the ecosocialist journal Climate and Capitalism, and Simon Butler is co-editor of Green Left Weekly.

Reproductive Justice

Author : Loretta Ross
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288181
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Reproductive Justice written by Loretta Ross and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Reproductive Justice History -- 2. Reproductive Justice in the Twenty-First Century -- 3. Managing Fertility -- 4. Reproductive Justice and the Right to Parent -- Epilogue: Reproductive Justice on the Ground -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

A Quiet Violence

Author : Betsy Hartmann
Publisher : Food First Books
ISBN 13 : 9780935028164
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book A Quiet Violence written by Betsy Hartmann and published by Food First Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field study of living conditions in a village of Bangladesh - describes historical background to poverty, the agrarian structure and agricultural production; mentions landowner attitudes, rural youth, rural women and children; examines the role of Islamic religion, marriage, the rural area social classes (particularly peasant farmers and landless agricultural workers); covers land and production relations, agricultural marketing, violence, corruption, development aid, etc. Photographs and references.

The Ethics of Abortion

Author : Christopher Kaczor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136896805
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Abortion written by Christopher Kaczor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the major grounds for denying fetal personhood, including the views of those who defend not only abortion but also infanticide. It also provides several (non-theological) justifications for the conclusion that all human beings, including those in utero, should be respected as persons. This book also critiques the view that abortion is not wrong even if the human fetus is a person. The Ethics of Abortion examines hard cases for those who are prolife, such as abortion in cases of rape or in order to save the mother’s life, as well as hard cases for defenders of abortion, such as sex selection abortion and the rationale for being “personally opposed” but publically supportive of abortion. It concludes with a discussion of whether artificial wombs might end the abortion debate. Answering the arguments of defenders of abortion, this book provides reasoned justification for the view that all intentional abortions are morally wrong and that doctors and nurses who object to abortion should not be forced to act against their consciences.

Women's Human Rights

Author : Anne Hellum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110727673X
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Women's Human Rights written by Anne Hellum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an instrument which addresses the circumstances which affect women's lives and enjoyment of rights in a diverse world, the CEDAW is slowly but surely making its mark on the development of international and national law. Using national case studies from South Asia, Southern Africa, Australia, Canada and Northern Europe, Women's Human Rights examines the potential and actual added value of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in comparison and interaction with other equality and anti-discrimination mechanisms. The studies demonstrate how state and non-state actors have invoked, adopted or resisted the CEDAW and related instruments in different legal, political, economic and socio-cultural contexts, and how the various international, regional and national regimes have drawn inspiration and learned from each other.