Nicole Bourbonnais

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a comprehensive history of reproductive politics and practice in the twentieth-century Anglophone Caribbean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781107544468
• ISBN-10: 1107544467
• Artikelnr.: 53211331

Autorenporträt

Nicole C. Bourbonnais is an Assistant Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables and figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of acronyms
Introduction
1. The answer, an aid, a right: birth control debates and social movements in the interwar years
2. From politics to practice: the Colonial office, foreign activists, local advocates, and the structure of family planning clinics
3. Beyond culture or choice: working class families and birth control clinics
4. A matter of cost: reproductive politics, state family planning programs, and foreign aid in the transition to independent rule
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.