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Reproductive Rights in a Global Context: South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Denmark, United States, Vietnam, Jordan - Hardcover

Knudsen, Lara M.

 
9780826515278: Reproductive Rights in a Global Context: South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Denmark, United States, Vietnam, Jordan
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0826515274 ISBN 13: 9780826515278
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006

Synopsis

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2006

Traveling alone when she was between 17 and 22, with no institutional affiliation and no financial assistance, the author visited five developing countries and two developed ones on five continents. Her goal was to extend her own experience in an abortion clinic in Portland, Oregon. Lara Knudsen interviewed over 90 women's rights activists, health professionals, NGO workers, and government officials, gaining a sense of both official policies and the actual delivery of services in local clinics. The book places the experiences of women within the global context of how international population control agendas have influenced women's reproductive rights in the past, and how the changing international discourse on reproductive health continues to influence those rights today.

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About the Author

Lara Knudsen is a student of medicine and public health at George Washington University.

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Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0826515274
ISBN 13 
9780826515278
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
312