Full Description
Reproductive Rights and Wrongs reveals the dangers of contemporary population-control tactics, especially for women in developing countries. It also tells the story of how international women's health activists fought to reform population control and promoted a new agenda of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all people. While their efforts bore fruit, many obstacles remain. Today, despite declining birth rates worldwide, overpopulation alarm is on the rise, and now it is tied to the threats of climate change and terrorism.
Contents
Preface
PART ONE
THE REAL POPULATION PROBLEM
1. Security and Survival
2. The Malthusian Orthodoxy
3. A Womb of One's Own
4. The Plan Behind Family Planning
5. The Indonesian "Success" and the Kenyan "Failure"
PART TWO
POPULATION CONTROL COMES OF AGE
6. Birth of an Ideology
7. The Population Establishment Today
8. Building a "Consensus" for Cairo and Beyond
9. China—"Gold Babies" and Disappearing Girls
PART THREE
CONTRACEPTIVE CONTROVERSIES
10. Shaping Contraceptive Technology
11. Hormonal Contraceptives and the IUD
12. Bangladesh—Survival of the Richest
13. Sterilization and Abortion
14. Barrier Methods, Natural Family Planning, and Future Directions
PART FOUR
THE WAY FORWARD
15. The Light at the End of the Demographic Tunnel
16. The Population Framework: Inside or Outside?
Appendix: Call for a New Approach
