Women’s Reproductive Rights

✍ Scribed by Heather Widdows, Itziar Alkorta Idiakez, Aitziber Emaldi Cirión (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 253
• Series: Women’s Rights in Europe Series
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Abortion — A Reproductive Right....Pages 17-32
Adoption: Practices and Regulations....Pages 33-49
Birth Rate and Women’s Rights in Europe....Pages 50-70
Teenage Pregnancy....Pages 71-87
Minority Groups and Reproductive Rights....Pages 88-108
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Women’s Rights in European Fertility Medicine Regulation....Pages 111-123
How is Technology Changing the Meaning of Motherhood for Western Women....Pages 124-139
Preimplantation Diagnosis: Problems and Future Perspectives....Pages 140-150
The Impact of New Reproductive Technologies on Concepts of Genetic Relatedness and Non-relatedness....Pages 151-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Reproductive Rights in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 167-187
Ownership, Property and Women’s Bodies....Pages 188-198
Beyond Europe: Rhetoric of Reproductive Rights in Global Population Policies....Pages 199-213
Back Matter....Pages 214-241

✦ Subjects

Gender Studies; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights; Sociology of Familiy, Youth and Aging; Human Rights; Public Health