Reproductive Rights in a Global Context: South Africa, Uganda, Peru, Denmark, United States, Vietnam, Jordan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780826515278)

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.

Author: Lara M. Knudsen
ISBN-10: 0826515274
ISBN-13: 9780826515278
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2006
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.30w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2006 pg. 725