Synopses & Reviews
This book grows out of IRRRAG’s four years of collaborative research and analysis in seven countries: Brazil, Egypt, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, and the United States. Based on in-depth group and individual interviews with hundreds of women in diverse settings, the book asks when, whether and how grassroots women express a sense of entitlement or self-determination in everyday decisions about childbearing, work, marriage, fertility control and sexual relations. What strategies do women employ in their negotiations with parents, husbands or partners, health providers, and the larger community over reproductive and sexual matters? What role do economic constraints, religion, tradition, motherhood and group participation play in shaping their decisions?
Review
This is an extraordinary book--the result of a carefully nurtured process of cross-cultural collaboration and consultation. As such, it is a unique resource on one of the most challenging and contentious social issues of our time. The voices and experiences of women, their strengths and diversity, are captured here.
Adrienne Germaine, International Women's Health Coalition
Synopsis
This book grows out of IRRRAGs four years of collaborative research and analysis in seven countries: Brazil, Egypt, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, and the United States. Based on in-depth group and individual interviews with hundreds of women in diverse settings, the book asks when, whether and how grassroots women express a sense of entitlement or self-determination in everyday decisions about childbearing, work, marriage, fertility control and sexual relations. What strategies do women employ in their negotiations with parents, husbands or partners, health providers, and the larger community over reproductive and sexual matters? What role do economic constraints, religion, tradition, motherhood and group participation play in shaping their decisions?
Synopsis
This is a collectively authored book that grows out of The International Reproductive Rights Research Action Groups four years of collaborative research and analysis.
Table of Contents
Introduction--Rosalind P. Petchesky * "Not Like Our Mothers:" Reproductive Choice and the Emergence of Citizenship among Brazilian Rural Workers, Domestic Workers and Urban Housewives--Simone Grilo Diniz, Cecilia de Mello e Souza and Ana Paula Portella * "Womens Wit Over Mens:" Trade-Offs and Strategic Accommodations in Egyptian Women's Reproductive Lives--Aida Seif El Dawla, Amal Abdel Hadi and Nadia Abdel Wahab * Between Modernization and Patriarchal Revivalism: Reproductive Negotiations Among Women in Peninsular Malaysia--Rita Raj, Chi Heng Leng and Rashidah Shuib * "Because They Were Born From Me:" Negotiating Women's Rights in Mexico--Adriana Ortiz-Ortega, Ana Amuchástegui and Marta Rivas * Womens Sexuality and Fertility in Nigeria: Breaking the Culture of Silence--Grace Osakue and Adriane Martin-Hilber * From Sanas to Dapat: Negotiating Entitlement in Reproductive Decision-Making in the Philippines--Mercedes Lactao-Fabros, Aileen May C Paguntalan, Lourdes L. Arches and Ma Teresa Guia-Padilla * The South Within the North: Reproductive Choice in Three US Communities--Dianne Jntl Forte and Karen Judd * Cross Country Comparisons and Political Visions--Rosalind P. Petchesky * Appendix * Bibliography * Index