Sarah Mellors Rodriguez (Missouri State University)

Reproductive Realities in Modern China

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Produktbeschreibung

China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez investigates grassroots experiences of fertility policies and politics in modern China from the early twentieth century to the present.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781009011570
• ISBN-10: 100901157X
• Artikelnr.: 69229290

Autorenporträt

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Building a fitter nation: eugenics
birth control
and abortion in public discourse
1911-1949; 2. Birth control in practice: emmenagogues
contraceptives
and abortions
1911-1949; 3. Reaping the fruits of women's labor: birth control in the early PRC
1949-1958; 4. 'Birth planning has many benefits': weaving family planning into the fabric of everyday life
1959-1965; 5. Controlling sex and reproduction across the urban-rural divide
1966-1979; 6. The rise and demise of the one child policy
1979-2015; Epilogue: birth control and abortion in the longue durée
1911-2021. Epilogue: Birth Control and Abortion in the Longue Durée
1911-2021.