Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean

Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930ā€“1970

Nonfiction, History, Americas, Caribbean & West Indies, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Nicole C. Bourbonnais ISBN: 9781316863176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: November 21, 2016
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Nicole C. Bourbonnais
ISBN: 9781316863176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: November 21, 2016
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice on four islands (Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bermuda) from the 1930sā€“70s. The process of decolonization during this period led to heightened clashes over imperial and national policy and brought local class, race, and gender tensions to the surface, making debates over reproductive practices particularly evocative and illustrative of broader debates in the history of decolonization and international family planning. Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean is at once a political history, a history of activism, and a social history, exploring the challenges faced by working class women as they tried to negotiate control over their reproductive lives.

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Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice on four islands (Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bermuda) from the 1930sā€“70s. The process of decolonization during this period led to heightened clashes over imperial and national policy and brought local class, race, and gender tensions to the surface, making debates over reproductive practices particularly evocative and illustrative of broader debates in the history of decolonization and international family planning. Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean is at once a political history, a history of activism, and a social history, exploring the challenges faced by working class women as they tried to negotiate control over their reproductive lives.

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