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Abortion: A Documentary and Reference Guide
Greenwood Publishing Group 2008; US$ 85.00This thought-provoking reference work explores the evolution of America's heated abortion debate in a selection of over 40 primary documents from the 19th century to the present day. The guide includes not only key laws and court cases that have determined abortion policy, but also political speeches, medical essays, theological writings, newspaper... more...
Margaret Sanger
Infobase Publishing 2004; US$ 30.00Sanger was the founder of the birth control movement in the United States and was an international leader in the field. Her work as a nurse convinced her that limiting the size of families through elective birth control was needed to achieve social progress. more...
Population Politics and Development
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 100.00This book uses political and socio-anthropological theory to examine the relationship between power, interest, and agency within population and family planning discourse across Africa, with particular emphasis on case studies from Tanzania. more...
Understanding Early Childhood
McGraw-Hill Education 2008; US$ 158.00Offers an introduction to the concepts and theories in early childhood education. Drawing on research evidence from various countries and reviewing studies about children - including anthropology, economics, history, psychology and sociology - this title offers perspectives on the ways in which we understand and study young children. more...
Sex-Selective Abortion in India
SAGE India 2006; US$ 31.95This collection of 11 essays unravels the reasons for the depleting child sex. ratio in India. The contributors, all distinguished demographers and social scientists,. describe the political economy of sentiments and sexual mores that leads parents. to kill unborn daughters. The contributors examine ways in which reproductive technologies, such as,.... more...
Matters of Choice
Rutgers University Press 2008; US$ 26.95In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women. Drawing upon her twenty-five years of research on sterilized Puerto Rican women... more...
Choice and Coercion
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 25.00In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted by newspaper stories based on the research of Johanna Schoen, who was granted unique access to summaries of 7,500 case histories and the papers... more...
The Means of Reproduction
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 16.00A groundbreaking new work on the global battle over reproductive rights by the author of The New York Times bestseller Kingdom Coming Award-winning journalist Michelle Goldberg shows how the emancipation of women has become the key human rights struggle of the twenty-first century in The Means of Reproduction . Deeply reported across four... more...
Sacred Rights
Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 34.99As the global population continues to grow, family planning is fast becoming one of the most critical issues facing the planet. While many organizations--most prominently the United Nations--are trying to implement policies that will help curb the population explosion, these measures are frequently blocked by those professing conservative religious... more...
Marriage at Midlife
Springer Publishing Company 2009; US$ 69.00Contributors. Preface. Chapter 1: Guiding Perspectives and Analytical Tools. Defining the "Centerstage" Marriage. The Empty Nest-an Empty Metaphor?. Our Research: How Did We Learn About Centerstage Marriages?. Five Couples: Five Different Challenges. How to Use This Book. A Guiding Perspective: Communicating Across the Life course. Accounting... more...









