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Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean Nicole C. Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean By Nicole C. Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean by Nicole C. Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)


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Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean explores how twentieth-century birth control campaigns intersected with wider debates over imperialism, nationalism, transnationalism, inequality, and culture in the Caribbean. This book will appeal to readers interested in Caribbean history, the African Diaspora, gender, race, and class politics, as well as transnational and social history.

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean Summary

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930-1970 by Nicole C. Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

Over the course of the twentieth century, campaigns to increase access to modern birth control methods spread across the globe and fundamentally altered the way people thought about and mobilized around reproduction. This book explores how a variety of actors translated this movement into practice on four islands (Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and Bermuda) from the 1930s-70s. The process of decolonization during this period led to heightened clashes over imperial and national policy and brought local class, race, and gender tensions to the surface, making debates over reproductive practices particularly evocative and illustrative of broader debates in the history of decolonization and international family planning. Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean is at once a political history, a history of activism, and a social history, exploring the challenges faced by working class women as they tried to negotiate control over their reproductive lives.

Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean Reviews

'Nicole C. Bourbonnais tracks the complex politics of birth control in the decolonising Caribbean, illuminating the way that local contingencies shaped broad global population policies. Deftly navigating competing interpretations of birth control as liberation or as coercion, her study encompasses both the debates surrounding the provision of contraception and the lives of those affected by it. This is a work of profound importance.' Philippa Levine, University of Texas, Austin
'This book provides a riveting and comprehensive account of the grassroots, pro-feminist and cross-class/race/gender movements for birth control in the twentieth-century colonial English-speaking Caribbean. It locates the genesis of these movements in the demands by women for assistance to control their births and chronicles the later incorporation of these movements into state-led programs and neo-Malthusian and eugenicist population control strategies. This publication is a must-read for all including health and social and reproductive rights advocates, scholars and practitioners. It is a timely contribution to an issue that continues to demand our attention.' Rhoda Reddock, University of the West Indies
'Nicole C. Bourbonnais's important book advances our understanding of the history of birth control in the British Caribbean during the decades leading to decolonization. This thoughtful and fascinating work tells us about the struggles and victories of ordinary women in the Caribbean, and its sensitive engagement with international developments ensures its appeal to scholars and others interested in the intertwined histories of reproduction, politics and gender globally.' Juanita De Barros, McMaster University, Ontario
'Exhaustively and impeccably researched in archives and special collections across the Atlantic, Bourbonnais visited no less than six countries for this study - an impressive feat. The finished history is an excellent interdisciplinary study that will make its mark within a multitude of historical discourses.' Colleen A. Vasconcellos, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

About Nicole C. Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)

Nicole C. Bourbonnais is an Assistant Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction; 1. The answer, an aid, a right: birth control debates and social movements in the interwar years; 2. From politics to practice: the Colonial office, foreign activists, local advocates, and the structure of family planning clinics; 3. Beyond culture or choice: working class families and birth control clinics; 4. A matter of cost: reproductive politics, state family planning programs, and foreign aid in the transition to independent rule; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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NLS9781107544468
9781107544468
1107544467
Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930-1970 by Nicole C. Bourbonnais (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
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Cambridge University Press
2018-11-01
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