Population and Reproductive Rights

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Editor(s)

de Selincourt, Kate
Sweetman, Caroline

Publication date

1996-01-01

Series

Oxfam Focus on Gender

Document type

Book

Description

Concern about rapid growth in population has resulted in inappropriate and sometimes oppressive population control policies being implemented in many developing countries in the past 30 years. This book in the Focus on Gender series highlights the need for an approach which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services and information in the context of a comprehensive women's health-care programme linked to women's empowerment. Issues covered are new contraceptive technologies; unsafe abortion and its costs in terms of women's lives and health; the cultural norms underlying attitudes to women's sexuality; and rape as an assertion of male power. Contributors include Peggy Antrobus, Susan Joekes, Renu Khanna, Julia Cleves Mosse, Ruth Pearson, Janet Price, and Ines Smyth.

Editorial; From family planning and maternal and child health to reproductive health; Children as a resource: environmental degradation and fertility; 'Safe Motherhood', family planning and maternal mortality: an Indonesian case study; Female sexuality, regulation and resistance; Rape in South Africa: an invisible part of apartheid's legacy; The development of contraceptive technologies: a feminist critique; Abortion, reproductive rights and maternal mortality Women's health and feminist politics; The road to Cairo; A valuable lesson; Resources; Book review; Further reading; Organisations working in the fields of population and women's health

ISBN

978-0-85598-278-2

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121127

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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/population-and-reproductive-rights-121127

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