Anti-Sterilization Abuse Organizing: A Retrospective Examination
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Published:1988-07
Issue:2
Volume:9
Page:111-124
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ISSN:0272-684X
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Container-title:International Quarterly of Community Health Education
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Int Q Community Health Educ
Abstract
November 1988 marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Government's adoption of guidelines for federally-funded sterilizations. This action was the result of years of organizing by the anti-sterilization abuse movement which grew in the early 1970s in response to the alarming increase in numbers of coercive sterilizations, particularly among poor and minority women. This retrospective examination looks at the strengths and weaknesses of anti-sterilization abuse organizing in the United States, and draws out lessons for other areas of work. It begins by exploring the problem of sterilization abuse and the history of the movement against it. The movement is analyzed using key theoretical concepts of community organizing. An evaluation indicates that the anti-abuse efforts were successful and rich with lessons for reproductive rights and other popular health struggles today.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Education,General Medicine,Health (social science)
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