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Routledge
128 Pages
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Routledge
128 Pages
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Routledge
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Abortion and the right of a woman to control her fertility cross boundaries of race, ethnicity, and social class. In this revealing and in-depth study, Jean P. Peterman focuses on a group of Puerto Rican women in Chicago whose decisions about abortion highlight the contradictions between the sexually conservative ethnic and religious beliefs of this community and the fact that Latina women... Read more
Introduction -- The Meaning of Abortion -- Experiences and Beliefs About Relationships -- Cultural Stories and Collective Stories -- The Cultural Story and the Decision to Get an Abortion -- Abortion as a Moral Passage to a Collective Story -- Conclusion: Puerto Rican Women Creating a Collective Story -- Appendixes -- Looking for Members of a Hidden Population -- Interview Guide -- Characteristics of Interviewees
Biography
Jean P. Peterman is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy at Chicago State University
