Power and Decision: The Social Control of Reproduction.

Abstract

This book is a collective effort to provide in one publication an overview of the disparate social forces that circumscribe reproduction within specific social parameters with a complementary examination of how biomedical research and the new reproductive technologies reflect and sustain those parameters. Including case studies from a range of countries this book offers a collection of Southern and Northern feminist perspectives on which social controls offer protective support for parenting and suggestions on how to redress those which do not. The chapters in this volume illustrate both the commonalities and disparities between first and third world settings. (EXCERPT)