Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021 - Couverture rigide

Mellors Rodriguez, Sarah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1316515311 ISBN 13 : 9781316515310

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Lasting from 1979 to 2015, China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date and considered emblematic of global efforts to regulate population growth during the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez analyses how ordinary people, particularly women, navigated China's shifting fertility policies before and during the One Child Policy era. She examines the implementation and reception of these policies and reveals that they were often contradictory and unevenly enforced, as men and women challenged, reworked, and co-opted state policies to suit their own needs. By situating the One Child Policy within the longer history of birth control and abortion in China, Reproductive Realities in Modern China exposes important historical continuities, such as the enduring reliance on abortion as contraception and the precariousness of state control over reproduction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1316515311
• ISBN 13: 9781316515310
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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