Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean

Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970

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ID19901876
AuthorsNicole Bourbonnais (0000-0002-0206-9867, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, corresponding author), Nicole C Bourbonnais
Year2016
Publication date2016-11-21
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueBirth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781316339930
OpenAlexW4241825142
Open LibraryOL27840350M
ISBN9781316339930
LanguageEN
Citations received10

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 1930s–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

Caribbean art · Decolonization · Ethnology · Globe · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Reproduction · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · 20th century · Birth control · Caribbean area · Colonialism · Contraception · Family planning · Family Planning Policy · Family Planning Services · Postcolonialism · Reproductive Rights · Social conditions

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