Why read Reproductive Rights And Wrongs?

Book cover of Reproductive Rights And Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control

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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…

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1 author picked Reproductive Rights And Wrongs as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Sydney Calkin

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Hartmann’s book is a classic and is in its third edition.

This is an essential reading for anyone who cares about feminist politics and abortion rights because it provides a global historical context. Laws and attitudes on reproductive rights differ dramatically across the world – where one country might restrict abortion and contraception, another country might grant easy access to contraception and abortion.

This book shows the dark history of global population control efforts that used abortion and contraception to attempt to lower birthrates in poor countries. She reminds us that, across the world, governments and other organizations have used…

From Sydney's list on abortion and reproductive rights.