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Challenging choices : Canada's population control in the 1970s

Author: Erika Dyck; Maureen K Lux
Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
Series: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society, 54.
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"Between the decriminalization of contraception in 1969 and the introduction of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, a decade regarded as a landmark era in the struggle for women's rights, public discourse about birth control and family planning was transformed. At the same time, a transnational conversation about the 'population bomb' that threatened global famine caused by overpopulation embraced birth  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Case studies
History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Dyck, Erika.
Challenging choices.
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020
(OCoLC)1164093587
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Erika Dyck; Maureen K Lux
ISBN: 9780228003748 0228003741 9780228003755 022800375X
OCLC Number: 1142511359
Description: xii, 212 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Title: McGill-Queen's/Associated Medical Services studies in the history of medicine, health, and society, 54.
Responsibility: Erika Dyck and Maureen Lux.

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An unflinching look at how eugenics and population control continued to inform family planning in 1970s Canada.  Read more...

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"Challenging Choices moves the history of the abortion debates of the 1970s along in important ways -- both by considering reproductive justice as the critical paradigm and by foregrounding Read more...

 
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