Sarah Mellors Rodriguez (Missouri State University)

Reproductive Realities in Modern China

Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021

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Produktbeschreibung

China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez investigates grassroots experiences of fertility policies and politics in modern China from the early twentieth century to the present.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781316515310
• ISBN-10: 1316515311
• Artikelnr.: 64369138

Autorenporträt

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Building a fitter nation: eugenics, birth control, and abortion in public discourse, 1911
1949; 2. Birth control in practice: emmenagogues, contraceptives, and abortions, 1911
1949; 3. Reaping the fruits of women's labor: birth control in the early PRC, 1949
1958; 4. 'Birth planning has many benefits': weaving family planning into the fabric of everyday life, 1959
1965; 5. Controlling sex and reproduction across the urban-rural divide, 1966
1979; 6. The rise and demise of the one child policy, 1979
2015; Epilogue: birth control and abortion in the longue durée, 1911
2021. Epilogue: Birth Control and Abortion in the Longue Durée, 1911-2021.