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Population and Reproductive Rights: Oxfam focus on gender - Softcover

Sweetman, Caroline

 
9780855982782: Population and Reproductive Rights: Oxfam focus on gender

Synopsis

This book highlights the need for an approach to population control which is based on reproductive rights, and stresses the importance of offering family-planning services and information in the context of women's empowerment. Issues covered are new contraceptive technologies; unsafe abortion and its cost in terms of women's lives and health; the cultural norms underlying attitudes to women's sexuality; and rape as an assertation of male power.

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About the Author

Caroline Sweetman is Editor of the international journal Gender & Development and works for Oxfam GB.

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