Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean
Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970
Seiten
2016
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-11865-2 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-11865-2 (ISBN)
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean explores how twentieth-century birth control campaigns intersected with wider debates over imperialism, nationalism, transnationalism, inequality, and culture in the Caribbean. This book will appeal to readers interested in Caribbean history, the African Diaspora, gender, race, and class politics, as well as transnational and social history.
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice on four islands (Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bermuda) from the 1930s–70s. The process of decolonization during this period led to heightened clashes over imperial and national policy and brought local class, race, and gender tensions to the surface, making debates over reproductive practices particularly evocative and illustrative of broader debates in the history of decolonization and international family planning. Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean is at once a political history, a history of activism, and a social history, exploring the challenges faced by working class women as they tried to negotiate control over their reproductive lives.
Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice on four islands (Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bermuda) from the 1930s–70s. The process of decolonization during this period led to heightened clashes over imperial and national policy and brought local class, race, and gender tensions to the surface, making debates over reproductive practices particularly evocative and illustrative of broader debates in the history of decolonization and international family planning. Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean is at once a political history, a history of activism, and a social history, exploring the challenges faced by working class women as they tried to negotiate control over their reproductive lives.
Nicole C. Bourbonnais is an Assistant Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
List of tables and figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction; 1. The answer, an aid, a right: birth control debates and social movements in the interwar years; 2. From politics to practice: the Colonial office, foreign activists, local advocates, and the structure of family planning clinics; 3. Beyond culture or choice: working class families and birth control clinics; 4. A matter of cost: reproductive politics, state family planning programs, and foreign aid in the transition to independent rule; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.01.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, black and white; 2 Maps; 3 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 510 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-107-11865-4 / 1107118654 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-107-11865-2 / 9781107118652 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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