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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Culture of Sterilization: Understanding the Desire for Female Surgical Sterilization Among Women in Brazil
Abstract
dc:descriptionMy thesis is that women value sterilization because it resolves a series of everyday conflicts surrounding productive/reproductive labor, sex/gender relations, and their bodies. This study contributes to understanding high rates of female surgical sterilization in Brazil by showing how women are invested in the current contraceptive regime and by highlighting the social context that hinders women's use of reversible methods.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Anthropology
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2001
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Bessa, Gina Louise Hunter De
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Norman Whitten, Jr
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3023019
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85238