Choice and Coercion Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare

Name: Choice and Coercion Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare
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ISBN: 9780807855850

ISBN-10: 0807855855

ISBN-13: 9780807855850

Edition: 2005

Authors: Johanna Schoen

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In 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 of the North Carolina Eugenics Board. In this book, Schoen situates the state's reproductive politics in a national and global context. Widening her focus to include birth control, sterilization, and abortion policies across the nation, she demonstrates how each method for limiting unwanted pregnancies had the potential both to expand and to…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/7/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction : a great thing for poor folks



Teaching birth control on Tobacco Road and in Mill Village Alley : the history of public birth control services



Nothing is removed except the possibility of parenthood : women and the politics of sterilization



I knew that it was a serious crime : negotiating abortion before Roe v. Wade



Taking foam powder and jellies to the natives : family planning goes abroad


Epilogue : from the footnotes to the headlines : sterilization apologies and their lessons