Reproductive Realities in Modern China
Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021
Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51531-0 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-316-51531-0 (ISBN)
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.
Lasting from 1979 to 2015, China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date and considered emblematic of global efforts to regulate population growth during the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez analyses how ordinary people, particularly women, navigated China's shifting fertility policies before and during the One Child Policy era. She examines the implementation and reception of these policies and reveals that they were often contradictory and unevenly enforced, as men and women challenged, reworked, and co-opted state policies to suit their own needs. By situating the One Child Policy within the longer history of birth control and abortion in China, Reproductive Realities in Modern China exposes important historical continuities, such as the enduring reliance on abortion as contraception and the precariousness of state control over reproduction.
Lasting from 1979 to 2015, China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date and considered emblematic of global efforts to regulate population growth during the twentieth century. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez analyses how ordinary people, particularly women, navigated China's shifting fertility policies before and during the One Child Policy era. She examines the implementation and reception of these policies and reveals that they were often contradictory and unevenly enforced, as men and women challenged, reworked, and co-opted state policies to suit their own needs. By situating the One Child Policy within the longer history of birth control and abortion in China, Reproductive Realities in Modern China exposes important historical continuities, such as the enduring reliance on abortion as contraception and the precariousness of state control over reproduction.
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez is Assistant Professor of History at Missouri State University.
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 530 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-316-51531-1 / 1316515311 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-316-51531-0 / 9781316515310 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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