Choice & coercion : birth control, sterilization, and abortion in public health and welfare

Choice & coercion : birth control, sterilization, and abortion in public health and welfare / Johanna Schoen.

Author/creator	Schoen, Johanna
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2005.
Description	xiv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Birth control--Government policy --North Carolina --History. Involuntary sterilization--North Carolina --History. Abortion--Government policy --North Carolina --History. Contraception--history --North Carolina. Abortion, Induced--history --North Carolina. Eugenics--history --North Carolina. Health Policy--history --North Carolina. Sterilization, Reproductive--history --North Carolina.

Variant title	Choice and coercion
Series	Gender & American culture Gender & American culture. ^A228874
Contents	Introduction : a great thing for poor folks -- Teaching birth control on Tobacco Road and in Mill Village Alley : the history of public birth control services -- Nothing is removed except the possibility of parenthood : women and the politics of sterilization -- I knew that it was a serious crime : negotiating abortion before Roe v. Wade -- Taking foam powder and jellies to the natives : family planning goes abroad -- Epilogue : from the footnotes to the headlines : sterilization apologies and their lessons.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-317) and index.
Acquisitions source	Laupus- E. Daniel Shingleton Public Health Collection
LCCN	2004017632
ISBN	0807829196 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807855855 (pbk. : alk. paper)