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and of perceptive analysis of the implications for policies promoting gender justice. What emerges from the comparison across countries is how much women have in common in their experience of the power relations embedded in reproduction
Contents
Introduction, Rosalind P. Petchesky; "not like our mothers" - reproductive choice and the emergence of citizenship among Brazilian rural workers, domestic workers and urban housewives, Simone Grilo Diniz et al; "women's wit over men's" - trade-offs and strategic accommodations in Egyptian women's reproductive lives, Aida Seif El Dawla et al; between modernization and patriarchal revivalism - reproductive negotiations among women in peninsular Malaysia, Rita Raj et al; "because they were born from me" - negotiating women's rights in Mexico, Adriana Ortiz-Ortega et al; women's sexuality and fertility in Nigeria - breaking the culture of silence, Grace Osakue and Adriane Martin-Hilber; from Sanas to Dapat - negotiating entitlement in reproductive decision making in the Philippines, Mercedes Lactao-Fabros et al; the South within the North - reproductive choice in three US communities, Dianne Jnti Forte and Karen Judd; cross country comparisons and political visions, Rosalind P. Petchesky.
