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Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Gender and American Culture)

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In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to sufferers of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision used to be prompted in large part by a series of articles in the Winston-Salem Journal. These stories were inspired in part by the research of Johanna Schoen, who used to be 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 keep watch over, sterilization, and abortion policies across the nation, she demonstrates how every method for limiting unwanted pregnancies had the potential both to expand and to limit women’s reproductive choices. Such programs overwhelmingly targeted poor and nonwhite populations, yet they also extended a measure of reproductive keep watch over to poor women that used to be up to now out of reach.

On an international level, the US has influenced reproductive health policies by, for example, tying foreign aid to the recipients’ compliance with U.S. notions about circle of relatives planning. The availability of U.S.-funded circle of relatives planning aid has proved to be a double-edged sword, offering unprecedented opportunities to poor women even as subjecting foreign patients to medical experimentation that would be regarded as unacceptable at home.

Drawing on the voices of health and science professionals, civic benefactors, and American women themselves, Schoen’s study allows deeper understandings of the modern welfare state and the lives of women.

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