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YEAR: 1992

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Negotiating birth control in village China.

AUTHORS

Greenhalgh S

SOURCE

New York, New York, Population Council, 1992. 46 p. Research Division Working

Papers No. 38

ABSTRACT

By world-historical standards, China's birth control program has been exceptional in its hostility to women.

Understandably, most observers have viewed Chinese women as victims of the one-child birth program. But a closer

look at the politics of local policy implementation suggests that women are not only victims but also agents in the

practice of controlling births and making informal population policy in China's villages. Field research in a village in

Shaanxi Province shows how, through resistance to some of its harshest provisions, peasant women, acting on their

own and as members of patriarchal families, have shaped the development of village fertility policy and, in turn, its

effects on their bodies, reproductive outcomes, and options for living. (author's) (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT3T 1572-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Negotiating birth control in village China.", is(are)

Greenhalgh S. The source of this article is "New York, New York, Population Council, 1992. 46 p. Research Division

Working Papers No. 38". This article was published in 1992 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID:

CONT3T 1572-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 11572

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