| Contents |
The globalization of sterilization -- The birth control movement in Puerto Rico -- Gender awareness across generations -- Cultural continuities and urban change -- The Velez family: poverty, the cancer scare, and hysterectomies -- The Robles family: social change and gender struggle -- The Gomez family: under the knife again-reversing la operación -- The Morales and Rivera families: tough love and sterile choices -- Reproductive rights and an integral model of reproductive freedom -- Ideologies and inequities in the health care system -- Toward an integral model of reproductive freedom. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008000883 |
| ISBN | 9780813543727 (hardover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 081354372X (hardover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813543734 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813543738 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
