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Title: | The Culture of Sterilization: Understanding the Desire for Female Surgical Sterilization Among Women in Brazil |
Author(s): | Bessa, Gina Louise Hunter De |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Norman Whitten, Jr |
Department / Program: | Anthropology |
Discipline: | Anthropology |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Women's Studies |
Abstract: | My 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. |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 233 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/85238 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI3023019 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 2001 |
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois