Every woman in the world has the right to control her own body, plan her family, receive good quality medical care, and give birth to a healthy baby. This book takes a comprehensive look at the status of women's reproductive rights from a transnational, human-rights perspective.
"Reproductive justice" is a relatively new term that underscores the fact that the existence of reproductive rights does not mean that women are able to exercise those rights. For women unable to exercise their rights for any number of reasons-a lack of available services where they live, lack of money or health insurance to pay for services, being forbidden by family members to seek services-the reality is they have no choices to make and possess little if any control over their own bodies, regardless of what the government states their "rights" are.
Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern provides a comprehensive and integrated examination of the status of reproductive rights for the world's women, covering a wide range of reproductive rights issues. Topics include women's rights to determine their own sexuality and choose their own partners, rape, sex trafficking, fertility treatments and other assisted reproductive technologies, contraception and abortion, maternal and infant mortality, postpartum support, and breastfeeding.
Every woman in the world has the right to control her own body, plan her family, receive good quality medical care, and give birth to a healthy baby. This book takes a comprehensive look at the status of women's reproductive rights from a transnational, human-rights perspective.
"Reproductive justice" is a relatively new term that underscores the fact that the existence of reproductive rights does not mean that women are able to exercise those rights. For women unable to exercise their rights for any number of reasons-a lack of available services where they live, lack of money or health insurance to pay for services, being forbidden by family members to seek services-the reality is they have no choices to make and possess little if any control over their own bodies, regardless of what the government states their "rights" are.
Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern provides a comprehensive and integrated examination of the status of reproductive rights for the world's women, covering a wide range of reproductive rights issues. Topics include women's rights to determine their own sexuality and choose their own partners, rape, sex trafficking, fertility treatments and other assisted reproductive technologies, contraception and abortion, maternal and infant mortality, postpartum support, and breastfeeding.
Every woman in the world has the right to control her own body, plan her family, receive good quality medical care, and give birth to a healthy baby. This book takes a comprehensive look at the status of women's reproductive rights from a transnational, human-rights perspective.
Series Foreword
Foreword, Joy K. Rice, PhD
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Is Reproductive Justice?
Joan C. Chrisler
1. The Choice before the Choice: Partner Selection Is
Essential to Reproductive Justice
Makiko Kasai and S. Craig Rooney
2. Female Genital Cutting around the Globe: A Matter of
Reproductive Justice?
Virginia Braun
3. Women's Power in Relationships: A Matter of Social
Justice
Kathryn L. Norsworthy, Margaret A. McLaren, and Laura D.
Waterfield
4. Sexual Assault: A Matter of Reproductive Justice
Thema Bryant-Davis, Shaquita Tillman, and Pamela A. Counts
5. Reproductive Injustice: The Trafficking and Sexual
Exploitation of Women and Girls
Nancy M. Sidun
6. STI Prevention and Control for Women: A Reproductive
Justice Approach to Understanding Global Women's Experiences
Dionne P. Stephens, Vrushali Patil, and Tami L. Thomas
7. Contraception and Abortion: Critical Tools for Achieving
Reproductive Justice
Nancy Felipe Russo and Julia R. Steinberg
8. Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies:
Matters of Reproductive Justice
Lisa R. Rubin and Aliza Phillips
9. Pregnancy and Prenatal Care: A Reproductive Justice
Perspective
Lynda M. Sagrestano and Ruthbeth Finerman
10. Birthing across Cultures: Toward the Humanization of
Childbirth
Sayaka Machizawa and Kayoko Hayashi
11. Female Feticide and Infanticide: Implications for
Reproductive Justice
Ramaswami Mahalingam and Madeline Wachman
12. Reproductive Justice for Women and Infants: Restoring
Women's Postpartum Health and Infant-Feeding Options
Ingrid Johnston-Robledo and Allison Murray
13. Conclusion: An International View of Public Policy for
Reproductive Justice
Janet Sigal, Florence L. Denmark, Amy Nadel, and Rebecca A.
Petrie
Afterword: What Can We Do to Help the World's Women Achieve
Reproductive Justice?
Joan C. Chrisler
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
Joan C. Chrisler, PhD, is Class of 1943 Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College, New London, CT.
This book provides a solid overview of what is included in the
concept of women's reproductive justice and offers a starting point
for those interested in exploring this topic. In sum, this is a
volume that needs to exist.
*Sex Roles*
Reproductive Justice: A Global Concern reflects and documents the
maturation of an emerging perspective into a subfield. It should be
widely read, used in teaching, and celebrated as an example of how
psychology can be fully attentive to social structures and
contexts, as well as contribute to understanding and addressing
important social issues arising in women's most private and
personal experiences worldwide.
*PsycCRITIQUES*
Edited by feminist psychologist Joan Chrisler, the chapters are
organically organized into twelve key issues that affect the
overall well-being of women and girls worldwide. . . . Chrisler
includes topics that are often not portrayed as — even though they
clearly are — reproductive justice issues . . . In addition to
expanding what reproductive justice means for the reader by
including topics that are not often explicitly referred to as
reproductive issues, the contributors partner heartbreaking stories
and statistics with hopeful solutions, allowing the reader to
become an active participant in the material. . . . [T]his
much-needed endeavor largely succeeds in acknowledging the myriad
issues, both domestic and global, that affect the overall
well-being of women and girls . . .
*Feminist Collections*
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