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...

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1. Verfasser:	Mellors Rodriguez, Sarah ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in the history of the People's Republic of China
Schlagworte:	Abortion / China / History Birth control / China / History Familienpolitik China / Population policy China
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Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2023) Building a Fitter Nation: Eugenics, Birth Control, and Abortion in Public Discourse, 1911-1949 -- Birth Control in Practice: Emmenagogues, Contraceptives, and Abortions, 1911-1949 -- Reaping the Fruits of Women's Labor: Birth Control in the Early PRC, 1939-1958 -- "Birth Planning Has Many Benefits": Weaving Family Planning into the Fabric of Everyday Life, 1959-1965 -- Controlling Sex and Reproduction Across the Urban-Rural Divide, 1966-1979 -- The Rise and Demise of the One Child Policy, 1979-2015 -- Epilogue: Birth Control and Abortion in the Longue Durée, 1911-2021
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 248 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009019880
DOI:	10.1017/9781009019880